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| One person killed in Great Oaks Apartment fire in Rockford One person is dead after a fire breaks out at the Great Oaks apartment complex, according to Cherry Valley Fire Chief Joe Corl. He says calls came in around 6:30 a.m. for a fire at a 32-unit building the 4900 block of Linden Road. Six of the units are a complete loss. According to officials, everyone else in the building was safely evacuated. One dog was also rescued. One firefighter was also hurt while battling the blaze, but is expected to be okay. Greats Oaks, along with the Red Cross and Salvation Army, are working with the victims of the fire to find a new place to live. Multiple crews are working to put out the still active fire including Rockford, Byron and Roscoe fire departments. WREX-TV NBC 13 Through state's no-interest loan program, Christmas comes early for some Central Illinois fire departments It has all the makings of a blue Christmas this year in the Sullivan Fire Protection District firehouse. But unlike the sentiments shared in the popular holiday song, the feeling is quite jolly among Fire Chief Mike Piper and the firefighters there. That's because the department was among this year's recipients of a state loan that made possible the purchase of a new 3,000-gallon tanker truck. And yes, it is blue, just like the rest of the fire truck fleet in the firehouse, affectionately referred to as "The House of Blues." The new truck, which arrived last week and has yet to go out on an emergency call, served as the backdrop for a news conference announcing the $9.3 million made available for the purchase of emergency vehicles across the state as part of the Fire Truck Revolving Loan and the Ambulance Revolving Loan programs. HERALD REVIEW Search on for new Brookfield fire chief, HR director After more than 38 years on the job as a firefighter for the village of Brookfield, Fire Chief Mark Duffek quietly retired last month after serving the top job for the past 19 months. Duffek's last day on the job was Nov. 30; his departure was announced by Village Manager Timothy Wiberg at the village board's Nov. 25 meeting. "It's time," said Duffek in a phone interview with the Landmark. "It's a good feeling to go out on top." In addition, the village will also soon be looking for a new human resources director. Michelle Robbins, who has held that job for the past 14 years, will be leaving on Dec. 6. Truth be told, Duffek had eyed retiring a year ago at the end of November 2018. However, those plans were put on hold earlier last year when former Chief Patrick Lenzi announced he was leaving that April. RIVERSIDE BROOKFIELD LANDMARK Firefighters Rescue Woman Trapped In Basement During Peotone House Fire A woman was rescued from a house fire in south suburban Peotone. Thick smoke filled the air at 708 Pelican Lane, just before midnight. The house fire sent homeowners and neighbors out into the street in a subdivision. Firefighters rescued one woman who was trapped in the home's basement. The woman is in critical condition. No other injuries were reported and the cause of the fire is still not known. CBS 2 CHICAGO DeKalb police and firefighters hold festive competition to benefit Heroes and Helpers It turns out firefighters really can take the heat, as DeKalb firefighters won a wing-eating contest over the DeKalb police Wednesday in a friendly faceoff to benefit the police department's annual Heroes and Helpers Shop with a Cop campaign. Five cops and five firefighters chowed down on 300 chicken wings (150 a team) in 10 minutes as a crowd of about 50 cheered them on. At nine minutes and seven seconds, the firefighters emerged victorious, winning the contest over the boys in blue. "It's a maximum team effort, and the other team was a really good team," said DeKalb patrol officer Josh Boldt, who ate 35 wings and finished first on his team. "It's very nice to step outside of the clock and have some fun. Our town has a lot of struggles, and I think helping in any way we can makes people feel special, and that's what the holidays are all about." DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE - METERED SITE Park Ridge: Hope Offered For Fire Truck Research Project When irreparable damage occurred to the Park Ridge Fire Department's tower ladder during this summer's fire at the Marathon gas station, Fire Chief Jeff Sorensen asked to fast-track ordering of a replacement truck, which was scheduled to happen in the next fiscal year anyway. It takes a year to get a fire truck built, and Sorensen's efforts to order in 2019 were blocked by the Finance Committee from choosing a sole source provider. He and the Finance Department are now seeking approval, officially, to have the city join the Houston-Galveston Area Council, a Texas-based buying cooperative which specializes in detailed analysis of fire department vehicles. The request, for joining to get access to detailed specifications from various companies, was approved unanimously by the six council members attending Monday, Dec. 2. JOURNAL & TOPICS NEWSPAPERS ONLINE PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| Ohio Cities Fight Firefighters Over Cancer Benefits Dave Rowell's shirt says it all: "Euclid Fire: Nobody Fights Alone." When I meet Rowell, a captain in the Euclid Fire Department, we pull beat-up chairs across from each other in the duty office of Station 1, a functional-looking brick building on a strip of East 222nd Street. Outside the office, the bay doors are open. A Dalmatian sits out front of the station, plopped adorably between two red garage doors. Look quickly, and you'd miss that it's a statue. Out back, firefighters wipe down one of their fire engines, which gleams red and chrome in the morning sun. As Rowell and I talk, they whirl up the siren and flash the lights. Some firefighters are all too happy to regale you with stories of their daring. Rowell is not one of those. He tends toward the reserved, valiant sort, the kind of guy who is almost allergic to talking about himself. CLEVELAND MAGAZINE Officials say fireboat responsible for oil spill in Seattle's Elliott Bay VIDEO: Crews worked to clean up an oil spill Wednesday morning in Elliott Bay near the Seattle Waterfront. At about 8 a.m., crews at Fire Station 5 found a small leak of waste oil from Fireboat Leschi, Seattle fire officials said. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, several gallons were spilled. Crews immediately secured the leak and several agencies responded. Blooms were placed around the sheen to contain and absorb the oil. The U.S. Coast Guard was at the scene leading the mitigation efforts, along with the Department of Ecology and Seattle Public Utilities. The Seattle Fire Department said it will investigate to determine how the leak occurred. KIRO-TV CBS 7 SEATTLE With 1,100+ buildings in violation, New York City sprinkler law could cost owners big The city's Department of Buildings will begin enforcing a commercial sprinkler law passed in 2004 requiring all New York City landlords to install the fire prevention equipment. Despite the 15-year window for property owners to get up to code, it was revealed at a November City Council committee hearing that about 1,100 buildings were still not in compliance with the Local Law 26 — and 86 building owners have completely ignored city notifications. The window officially closed Dec. 1, and all commercial building owners are required to have installed sprinkler systems in their buildings throughout the city, including numerous city owned structures. "Our goal is compliance," said Andrew Rudansky, a spokesman for the Department of Buildings. "Building owners who fail to comply with DOB orders regarding these sprinkler requirements may face additional violations, which carry additional associated civil penalties, until they come into compliance." AM NEW YORK Fire officials in Connecticut city ‘getting everyone on same page' On Oct. 23, firefighters from multiple Norwich departments were called to a massive house fire on Bentley Avenue, a scene of controlled chaos with mutual aid back-up staged just down the road from the blaze as city trucks sprayed the multi-family residence with streams of water. Norwich Fire Department Acting Chief Keith Wucik, as incident commander, had a lot of balls in the air that afternoon between directing the main firefighting effort to keeping track of how many members had arrived on scene from the city's volunteer departments. To make the situation even more challenging, the body of a resident was found in the smoldering home. In an effort to better coordinate resources at mutual aid fires and to ultimately ensure firefighter safety, Wucik recently began pushing to implement a city-wide identification system, an idea first floated by former Norwich Fire Chief Kenneth Scandariato years ago. NORWICH BULLETIN Village in Wisconsin passes resolution supporting closest unit dispatch for EMS Village trustees passed a resolution on Monday night urging the Racine County Communications Center to adopt a practice of dispatching the nearest available emergency medical unit, and requesting that all county communities west of Interstate 94 pass similar resolutions. The move to closest-unit dispatch would mean when an emergency call comes in, dispatchers would send the closest available first responders, regardless of municipal borders. That model could help alleviate the dangers created by the disputes among the three Waterford-area fire agencies. A Journal Times investigation published Sunday found that those disputes have repeatedly resulted in cases when citizens in need of medical care in Rochester and parts of the Town of Waterford have sometimes had to wait 20 minutes or more for care, despite the Waterford Fire Department having ambulances available to respond in mere minutes. THE JOURNAL TIMES - METERED SITE PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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