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2010 Bail Out Bag Testing     2009 Swift Water Self Rescue Training
2009 Confined Space Training     5 Alarm Fire     Annual 9/11 Ceremony
Firefighters Training     Annual Fire House Open House    
Norwood Park Explorer Post 7447     Annual Christmas Party     Stark's Fire   
Dennys' Fire   New Orleans After Katrina     Call Of The Year Awards
Comic Books Effort     Hustle Up The Hancock

 
     

2010 Bail Out Bag Testing 

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2009 Swift Water Self Rescue Training in Rosemont and Norwood Park

 
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2009 Confined Space Training

 
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Norwood Park, Illinois Firefighters Battle 5-Alarm Apartment Blaze

In the early afternoon of Thursday, April 7, 2005 Norwood Park firefighters responded to what became a 5-alarm fire. The fire was in a fully occupied apartment building...

 
       
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Annual 9-11 ceremony held in front of the fire station

 
       
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Firefighters training, ventilation, search, and rescue drills

 
       
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Annual Firehouse Open House

 
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Norwood Park Explorer Post 7447 (junior firefighters)

Ventilation and search & rescue drills...

 
       
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Annual Christmas party held at the fire station

 
       
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Stark's Fire (1980)

Photos by Fire Chief David Traiforos of the Franklin Park Fire Department...

 
       
Stark's Warehouse fire, 4301 North Harlem Ave. in Norridge, in March of 1980.  
       
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Denny's Fire (1982)

 
Photos by Fire Chief David Traiforos of the Franklin Park Fire Department...  
       
Shortly before the Denny's restaurant in Harwood Heights was set for it's grand opening, on May 10, 1982, a construction worker's torch ignited a blaze that destroyed the fledging eatery. The wiring work started the blaze, which workers tried to initially control, and it spread throughout the structure which was already furnished for customers. The township fire service at that time did not use 911, and there were additional delays in response as a result. No one was injured, and Denny's was rebuilt and exists at that site to this day. Fires like this one highlight issues such as 911 service and allow corrections to improve our service to the community. This was shown at another fire at the same location over two decades later, in which an electrical fire was located and extinguished quickly by responding companies despite icy and freezing weather, with minimal property damage and no injuries. In the second case an automatic fire alarm notified 911 automatically at the first sign of trouble.  
       
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New Orleans after Katrina

Norwood Park sent three firefighters To New Orleans in September 2005, following Hurricane Katrina,
Deputy Chief Kevin Stenson, Commander John Kovalcik, and Commander Carmen Rinaldi

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Park Ridge VFW sponsored call of the year awards, March 2008

Pictured Sean Fennessy, Chief Stenson, Bob Erskine...

 
       
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Comic Books Effort

Norwood Park Firefighter Stanley Koy received a FEMA grant in 2007 for public education. He helped create and distribute 100,000 comic books across the country.

 
       
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Hustle Up the Hancock

Norridge Mayor Earl Field sponsored the Norwood Park Fire Department team for the 2008 "Hustle Up the Hancock".

 
       
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Board of Trustees

Chief Kevin Stenson
Deputy Chief John Kovalcik
President James Chmura
Treasurer Robert Martell
Secretary Donald Gelsomino
Trustee Wayne Jarosz
Trustee Paul Szczurek
Trustee Doug Strempek
Trustee Andrew Skyba



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Norwood Park, Illinois Firefighters Battle 5-Alarm Apartment Blaze

In the early afternoon of Thursday, April 7, 2005 Norwood Park firefighters responded to what became a 5-alarm fire. The fire was in a fully occupied apartment building.

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