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2010 marks
the 50th anniversary of your Channahon Fire Protection
District!
The first legal meeting of
the Channahon Volunteer Fire Department was held on
August 17, 1950. Officers of the department were as
follows:
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Robert Lamping,
President
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John Westerveld, Vice
President
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Stewart Dirst, Treasurer
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Harry Byers, Secretary
On August 31, 1950 the
elections were held for the first fire chief and aids,
the results were as follows:
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Steve Rittof, Fire Chief
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Everett McCoy, First
Assistant
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L. W. Piercy, Second
Assistant
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Maurice Frederick,
Captain
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Chas. Crawford,
Lieutenant
In 1960 the Channahon Fire
Protection District was formed. Today the District is
comprised of a full time Fire Chief, full time
Administrative Assistant, ten (10) full time
firefighters/paramedics, eight (8) contract
firefighter/paramedics, and 31 volunteers consisting of
firefighters and EMS personnel. The fire district covers
over 40 square miles and serves approximately 8,500
residents. The district has two manned fire houses,
three ALS ambulances, three engines, and numerous other
pieces of firefighting apparatus.
The fire district has a Dive team, is part of the Orange
CART Team (Combined Area Response Team), and has Fire
Investigators that work with MABAS 15. We are members of
MABAS Division 15 and Chief Shabbona Firefighter's
Association.
The Channahon Fire Protection District averages over 940
calls per year. The calls consist of Emergency Medical
calls, Fire calls, Mutual Aid calls, Hazmat calls, and
Dive calls. There are wide variety of calls the
firefighters and paramedics need to be ready for at all
times.
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Notice regarding Telephone
Solicitations:
We
receive many phone calls throughout the year from
concerned citizens, inquiring about telephone
solicitations they receive, purporting to be made on
behalf of the members of the Channahon Fire Protection
District.
We always share the same information with our
residents: We receive NO benefit from any of
these telephone, door-to-door or mailed solicitations.
Most of these solicitations are very carefully worded to
suggest that your donation will help local firefighters,
local retired firefighters or local
police
officers. That's just not true.
The members of the Channahon Fire Protection District
value our relationship with our residents and will
continue to take all steps necessary to maintain those
valued relationships.
Please use every opportunity to share this information
with your family, friends and neighbors.
Any donation a resident would like to make to the fire
district may be mailed directly to our
headquarters station at
24929 S. Center St., Channahon, IL 60410. This
is the only way to insure your donation directly
benefits the fire protection district.
Please call me at 815-467-6767 with any questions,
comments or concerns regarding this issue.
David S. Riddle, Chief
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