McHenry County Blog

It’s been a little over five weeks since the Village of Lakewood started its own fire department.

So, I thought it was time to see what the firemen had done.

Village Administrator Catherine Peterson filled me in

“Since January 1st, through last Thursday, Lakewood residents have used its new fire department 24 calls,” she told me.

There were 11 ambulance calls:

• 7 advanced life support (on the way to the hospital) and
• 4 either “released” (where people calling decided going to hospital was not needed) or “basic life support” (more minimal care on an ambulance).

"There were six residential fire alarms, all false alarms,” she continued.

“Two open burning complaints.

“The Department responded to two motor vehicle accidents.”

There was one mutual aid response.

“A tanker truck was sent to the big fire in Hebron,” Peterson said. “It went with three individuals and we had five paid-on-call firemen replace them.

"It worked just like we planned,” Peterson observed.

“And, we had an arcing overhead wire to which the department responded.

"And a carbon monoxide detector went off, but no one was ill."


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The photo of the tanker truck, purchased from Marengo, had not been painted with Lakewood's name when I took the photo in late December.

Labels: Catherine Peterson, Hebron, Lakewood Fire Department, Marengo