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The Chicago Fire Department (CFD) provides firefighting services along with emergency medical response services, hazardous materials mitigation services, and technical rescue response services in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, under the jurisdiction of the Mayor of Chicago.
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The year 2000 brought the addition of the Chicago Fire Department fleet of 140 fire engines, 105 ambulances, and 87 aerial units under Fleet Management's supervision. In 2004, the City's fleet centralization process was accelerated when the Chicago Department of Water Management and Chicago Police Department were added as DFM customer departments.
Currently the executive of the Chicago Fire Department is referred to as the "fire commissioner". [1] Before this, the head of the department was known as the "chief engineer". The current head, holding the position of "fire commissioner", is Annette Nance Holt, appointed by mayor Lori Lightfoot in 2021. [1]
A hose team training to fight an aircraft fire aboard a US aircraft carrier, 2006 A Chicago Fire Department firefighter can be seen wielding an axe amid the rooftop blaze Examples are: Fire apparatus driver/operator - trained to drive fire apparatus to and from fires and other emergencies, operate fire-apparatus pumps and aerial devices, and ...
Chicago Fire may refer to: Great Chicago Fire, the fire that burned much of Chicago in 1871; Iroquois Theatre fire, a fire at a movie theater in 1903; Chicago Fire FC, a Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire Premier, part of the development system for the Chicago Fire FC; Chicago Fire NPSL, part of the development system for the Chicago Fire FC
According to an 1888 Chicago Tribune article, at the time no other engine company in the city had a better record of responding to fires. [4] In drills the full team could go from men upstairs and horses in stalls to a fully-hitched and mounted rig in 11 seconds; the team's typical time in practice was 14 or 15 seconds in daytime, 25 or 26 at ...
Chicago City Council Chambers has long been the center of public corruption in Chicago. [43] [44] The first conviction of Chicago alderpersons and Cook County Commissioners for accepting bribes to rig a crooked contract occurred in 1869. [43] Between 1972 and 1999, 26 current or former Chicago alderpersons were convicted for official corruption.