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Comment by Nathan Burnette on May 11, 2008 at 9:47pm

The current fire house that I belong to dosent have a lot of history. I will though dig up as much as I can.. The other departments that I have helped does and I will gather and share later. I do though enjoy whats here. Thanks

Comment by Larry Taggart on April 28, 2008 at 11:14am

I was a member of the La Grange Illinois Fire Department for 38 years. The department was first orginized in September of 1879 when like most departments a building burned down. This one happened to be the hotel in the downtown area. The village board spent $118.00 to buy one hand pumper and some hose and spanner wrenches. The town police chief was put in charge of the fire dept . This continued until 1951 when the first full time chief was hired. The first full time fire fighters were hired in 1938 when three men werte put on as the first full time men. This number continued to grow, when I was hired in 1964 as full time thier were 4 members on each shift and three shifts. We worked 24 on 48 off. Before that they worked 24 on and 24 off for ever The only reason that they got better hours was that the state passed a law about hours worked and made it a 56 hour workweek otherwise it would not have been changed uintil a unoin came in and got the hours changed, La Grange was the first department in the area to have full time professional fire fighters on it until after WW 2 when several other departments in the area went with full time members.

Comment by Eastlake Fire Department on April 11, 2008 at 4:04pm

Eastlake Village Fire Department
serving Proudly since 1881
See our site for a little of our history

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