Construction is well underway on the new Palatine Fire Department Station 81 at 1215 N. Quentin Road, south of Dundee Road. The station is less than a mile from the current, outdated station which Palatine inherited from the Palatine Rural Fire District in January of 2001. When.......

This from Dennis McGuire, Jr.:

Last night at approximately 22:00 hrs the Harvey Fire Department responded to 14829 S. Loomis for a reported fire in a building. Upon arrival of the 1st engine the one-story auto repair shop, 50×60.......

Here is the information for our 6^th Annual Golf Tournament to benefit the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. The tournament is co-hosted this year by the Addison and Glenside Fire Protection Districts and is sponsored by the Addison Professional .......

It’s been several days since there has been a new posting to the site, but travel and other duties have grabbed all of the available time. Within the next few days though, several updates will be completed. Contributors have been busy photographing apparatus and it takes.......

Tim Olk visited the Gurnee Fire Department and submitted images of the new Engine 1312 (not yet in service) and Ambulance 1344 (in service). Both units will be at Station 2. The arrival of these units meant some shifting of apparatus:

• the previous.......

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