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Divers help remove car from pond in Vernon Hills 5-21-20
The Countryside Fire Protection District received calls Monday afternoon reporting a car accident at the intersection of Lakeview Parkway and North Fairway Drive in Vernon Hills. Witnesses said that...
View ArticleDivers recover swimmer in Grayslake
The Chicago Tribune reported that: Searchers find body in lake where man went missing Divers pulled a body from Gages Lake at about 3:20 p.m. in the area where they had been looking for a swimmer who...
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Divers recover swimmer in Grayslake (update)
Tim Olk was in Grayslake yesterday as divers searched for a missing boater and submitted a few images from the scene. Grayslake Fire Dept 4th Alarm Side Scan Sonar Box And 3rd Alarm Divers Box Gages...
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Chicago FD Dive Response 8-13-13
This from Dan Shevlin: Person In The Water / Dive Rescue Response In the 0600 hour Tuesday morning the Main Fire Alarm received a report of a person who jumped into the North Branch of the Chicago...
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CFD rescues dog from pond 11-30-13
This from Eric Haak: Shortly before 0900 hrs on Saturday, November 30th, Chicago’s Main Fire Alarm Office received a call of a person in the water at the Humboldt Park Lagoon. Squad 2 was returning...
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Silver Lake Interdivisional Dive Sonar Box, 9-18-14
This is from West of the I in Kenosha County: The search for John Spoor, 66, of McHenry, Ill. will continue Thursday on Silver Lake. Here is the latest statement from Kenosha County Sheriff’s...
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Dive incident in River Forest, 3/8/15
This from Steve Redick: Had a great opportunity to take in a dive incident at North & Thatcher yesterday. A car went over the guardrail and wound up in the middle of the Des Plaines River. The...
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Dive incident in River Forest, 3/8/15 (more)
Excerpts from the ChicagoTribune.com: A 23-year-old Chicago woman, …identified Monday as Christina Hill … was found dead Monday morning after her car crashed into the Des Plaines River near River...
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Interdivisional Dive Box – Tri-State FPD, 4-13-15
Interdivisional Dive Box at 12805 Grant Road (Tri-State FPD) in the canal near Route 83 (Lemont). Tim Olk photo Tim Olk photo Tim Olk photo Tim Olk photo Tim Olk photo Share/Save
View ArticleCNN Mike Rowe trains with CFD divers
Mike Rowe of CNN ‘Somebody’s Gotta Do It’ visited the Chicago Fire Department Dive Unit CNN’s Mike Rowe is in for a long, icy swim training with the Chicago Fire Department’s Air & Sea Rescue unit....
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Interdivisional dive box in Arlington Heights, 8-31-17
Arlington Heights firefighters and divers with mutual aid from Division 1 and Division 4 searched the waters of Lake Arlington this afternoon for a missing female who was later located alive, beneath a...
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Chicago Fire Department Ice Rescue Training
This from Tim Olk: Chicago ice dive training at 31st Street each Tim Olk photo Tim Olk photo Tim Olk photo Tim Olk photo Tim Olk photo Tim Olk photo Tim Olk photo Tim Olk photo
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As seen around … Evanston
This from Max Weingardt: Evanston Fire Dept hosted MABAS Division 3 dive training Thursday night at the Church Street power boat ramp Max Weingardt photo Max Weingardt photo Max Weingardt photo Max...
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