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DuPage County fire department numbering (update)

This from CARMA CHICAGO:

Villa Park FD using new numbers on DU-COMM Fire East

Station 1 (unused, AFAIK) is just south of St. Charles Road on Home Avenue. The original West Suburban Fire Rescue Alliance numbering plan for DuPage County does show 81 for station 2 (north) and 82 for station 3 (south) with 83 and 84 being their reserve numbers and no mention of station 1 - but the original plan hasn't been followed much for numbering changes in the last year or so.

Villa Park FD is using new station and rig numbers on DU-COMM Fire East (154.415, 192.8 PL). I heard the tail end of a call where Engine 82 returned to quarters and Medic 81 went to Elmhurst Hospital. I believe they have two active stations and possibly a spare. It would seem that they're using 81 and 82 for their stations and front line rigs - does anyone know what number or numbers they're using for reserve rigs, etc.?

I show 81 for station 1, 82 for station 2, and 83, 84 for reserves. Don't they have an unused/old/semi-used station just south of St Charles in addition to the one near Roosevelt and the other one north of the UPRR?

The following is a list of Du Page County station numbering from CARMA Chicago:
Station Number Department Previous Station etc
Italics means that the numbers are not confirmed!
All changes to CARMA via the list, please!
1 Bartlett FPD
2 Bartlett FPD
3 Bartlett FPD
4 Bartlett FPD Reserve
5 West Chicago FPD Station 2 WSFRA
6 West Chicago FPD Station 1 WSFRA
7 West Chicago FPD Station 3 WSFRA
8 West Chicago FPD Station 4 WSFRA
9
10 Warrenville FPD Reserve
11 Warrenville FPD Station 1
12 Warrenville FPD Station 2
13
14
15
16
17 Bensenville FPD Station 1 Norcomm, Inc, Numbers
18 Bensenville FPD Station 2 Norcomm, Inc, Numbers
19
20 Bloomingdale FPD Reserve
21 Bloomingdale FPD Station 1
22 Bloomingdale FPD Station 2
23 Bloomingdale FPD Station 3
24
25
26
27 Carol Stream FPD Station 3 WSFRA
28 Carol Stream FPD Station 1 WSFRA
29 Carol Stream FPD Station 2 WSFRA
30
31 Winfield FPD Station 1 WSFRA
32 Winfield FPD Station 2 WSFRA
33
34
35
36
37 Wheaton Station 3 WSFRA
38 Wheaton Station 1 WSFRA
39 Wheaton Station 2 WSFRA
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48 Oak Brook Terrace FPD Reserve
49 Oak Brook Terrace FPD Station 1
50
51 Lisle-Woodridge FPD Station 1 Was 500s
52 Lisle-Woodridge FPD Station 2
53 Lisle-Woodridge FPD Station 3
54 Lisle-Woodridge FPD Station 4
55 Lisle-Woodridge FPD Station 5
56 Lisle-Woodridge FPD Reserve
57 Lisle-Woodridge FPD Reserve
58 Glenside FPD Was 700s
59 Glenside FPD Reserve
60 Glen Ellyn VFD Station 1 Reserve
61 Glen Ellyn VFD Station 1
62 Glen Ellyn VFD Station 2
63 Glen Ellyn VFD Station 2 Reserve
64
65
66 Itasca FPD Station 1
67 Itasca FPD Reserve
68 Wood Dale FPD Station 2
69 Wood Dale FPD Station 1
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77 York Center FPD Station 1
78 York Center FPD Reserve
79 Lombard Reserve
80 Lombard Reserve
81 Villa Park Station 1
82 Villa Park Station 2
83 Villa Park Reserve
84 Villa Park Reserve
85
86
87
88 Darien-Woodridge FPD Station 2 Was 600s
89 Darien-Woodridge FPD Station 1
90 Darien-Woodridge FPD Station 3
91 Darien-Woodridge FPD Reserve?
92 Oak Brook Station 2
93 Oak Brook Station 1
94 Oak Brook
95 Oak Brook
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97
98
99
100
 thanks Chris

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West Suburban Fire/Rescue Alliance

We first wrote about the West Suburban Fire/Rescue Alliance in March of last year. After a year of implementation, the Daily Herald has an interview with Carol Stream Fire Chief Rick Kolomay about the program.

Nearly a year after its debut, an alliance of firefighting agencies in DuPage County is lauding improvements in its responses to emergencies and outlining more ways to share resources.

The West Suburban Fire/Rescue Alliance includes the Wheaton Fire Department and fire protection districts of Carol Stream, Winfield and West Chicago. It’s not a consolidation, but the group aims to build cooperation and reduce costs.

The alliance already has adopted uniform protocols for firefighters and conducts monthly multidepartment training. Now, it’s reviewing ambulance fees in each community.

Although data is not quite a year old, officials said figures from DU-COMM, a regional service that handles 911 calls for the four municipalities, indicate emergency response times have been significantly reduced since the alliance formed.

In cases of general alarm calls, the time it took for all units — three engines, three trucks, two ambulances and five command officers — to arrive at structure fires dropped an average of almost five minutes, they said.

Officials say the faster responses stem from DU-COMM refining a computer-aided dispatch system and a procedure developed by the alliance called “closest station response.”

Pre-alliance depletion policies constrained the availability of equipment, officials said.

“We said basically we’ll only send you one of what we have because we have to protect the rest of town,” Carol Stream Chief and alliance President Rick Kolomay said. “We weren’t getting all the resources to the fire as quickly as we should because we had to skip towns to keep reaching for one of these and one of those because that’s all they could give us.”

Now, the alliance also fills voids when a chief or deputy chief, fire engine, ladder truck and ambulance deploy to the headquarters station of a community with a working fire to plan for any additional emergencies that could arise.

Kolomay said the group continues to study how emergency calls break down in each town. He also left open the possibility of the closest fire station responding in all cases.

Pre-alliance depletion policies constrained the availability of equipment, officials said.

“We said basically we’ll only send you one of what we have because we have to protect the rest of town,” Carol Stream Chief and alliance President Rick Kolomay said. “We weren’t getting all the resources to the fire as quickly as we should because we had to skip towns to keep reaching for one of these and one of those because that’s all they could give us.”

Now, the alliance also fills voids when a chief or deputy chief, fire engine, ladder truck and ambulance deploy to the headquarters station of a community with a working fire to plan for any additional emergencies that could arise.

Kolomay said the group continues to study how emergency calls break down in each town. He also left open the possibility of the closest fire station responding in all cases.

The entire article is HERE.

Thanks Chris

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