Thursday, February 28, 2013
La Grange, Western Springs and La Grange Park departments all responded to the fire; the woman was revived on the scene by Hinsdale firefighters and was transported to Adventist Hinsdale Hospital.
Updated at 11:37 a.m. The Bruner Street home that went up in flames early Thursday morning was equipped with smoke detectors, but it is not known if they were in working condition when the fire started, The Doings reported. The paper is also reporting that the residents' dog was killed in the fire and that the home is currently "uninhabitable." 10:26 a.m. The woman who was rescued from a burning home in the 900 block of South Bruner Street early Thursday morning was in "critical" condition when she was transported to Adventist Hinsdale Hospital, Hinsdale Fire Chief Rick Ronovsky said. "The last we heard, she was in the intensive care unit," Ronovsky said around 10:15 a.m. According to the chief, the woman who was revived by firefighters …
Sunday, January 13, 2013
The cause of the fire, which took place in southeast Hinsdale, is unknown at this point, a fire department release said.
A garage fire in southeast Hinsdale Saturday evening did an estimated $70,000 in damage but resulted in only minor injuries for the homeowner, according to a Hinsdale Fire Department release sent out Sunday. Around 5:33 p.m. Southwest Central Dispatch got a call from the owner of the house at 28 E. 57th St. reporting a fire in her garage. "The first arriving Hinsdale Fire Department unit reported a fully involved attached garage fire with flames and heavy smoke coming from the front of the garage," the release reads. "Upon hearing this information, Captain Kevin Votava upgraded the response to a box alarm, which brought additional mutual aid companies to the scene to assist Hinsdale fire crews." A swift response of the initial crew on the …
Monday, November 12, 2012
Firefighters from the Western Springs and La Grange departments got together over the weekend with the Hinsdale Fire Department to practice in a burning building.
The Hinsdale Fire Department and four other area departments. including La Grange and Western Springs, got together Saturday and Sunday for live-burn training at a vacant building at 421 E. Ogden Ave. in Hinsdale. Hinsdale firefighter/paramedic Steve Tullis said the point of the training was to practice large-scale operations for fires that demand a multi-company response. Tullis is the spokesman for the Hinsdale Fire Department, and he explained the event best in an email to Patch: "Oak Brook, Western Springs, La Grange and Clarendon Hills were all there to work on multi-company operations, planing for big events such as a large structure fire in Hinsdale. We worked on large-area searches inside a structure, hose-line advancement, truck…
Thursday, September 20, 2012
The second Big's Bare Knuckle Softball Tournament was held at Veeck Park in Hinsdale Sunday in honor of Deputy Chief Mark Johnson, who died while on duty in 2010.
The following is a release from the Hinsdale Fire Department: The second annual Big’s Bare Knuckle Softball Tournament, hosted over the weekend by the Hinsdale Fire Department to honor late Deputy Chief Mark Johnson, helped raise $10,000 for Hinsdale’s Safety Village. The money will also be used to send at least one child to Camp I Am Me, a two-week summer camp for child burn victims. The one-day tournament took place Sunday at Veeck Park in Hinsdale. Several local fire departments participated, including Western Springs, Westmont, Oak Brook, Clarendon Hills, La Grange Park and the Pleasantview Fire Protection District. The Hinsdale public works department also participated, winning the championship for the second straight year after a …
Dave Smith
9:47 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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