Sending a huge shoutout to 28 Mile Distillery Co. for donating over a gallon of hand sanitizer to our department! We are incredibly grateful, and applaud your efforts to help us first responders to stay healthy.

For more information about sending hand sanitizer to first responders, visit their link and fill out their form!
https://28milevodka.com/hand-sanitizer/

BPFD would like to thank a very generous resident that donated 50 N95 masks this week! With an overall shortage on medical supplies that help protect first responders, hospital workers, and other front line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot express how grateful we are. Acts of kindness like this, truly goes a long way! Stay safe, and stay healthy everyone!

With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, we would like to inform you that our department will not be accepting any outside food donations. Instead, we encourage those in the community to check on family, neighbors, and elderly folks around you. Taking care of one another by ensuring others are receiving any help or food they need, is extremely important. Let’s all make light of this situation by spreading acts of kindness, coming together as a community!

We would also like to inform you that we will be closing our front doors to the public, but remain in service to respond to calls. If you arrive at one of our stations and are having an emergency, please pick up the red phone to connect with our dispatchers.

As always, call 911 if you are having an emergency.

For updates and resources in Lake County about the coronavirus, visit www.lakecountyil.gov/coronavirus

This Sunday, don’t forget to change your clocks forward 1 hour for Daylight Savings. While you’re at it, remember to change the batteries in your smoke detectors!

Beach Park residents, contact the department to receive your free detector and installation!

February 21, 2020, the Chicago Fire Department hosted their first Public Fire Safety Education Summit at the Willis Tower. Attending Department members were Firemedic Sara Wojcik, Firemedic Jenna Sigafus and Fire Marshal Trudy Maatta.  The Summit included presentations from the National Fire Protection Association on Standard 1300 Community Risk Reduction (CRR), UL, Nicor Gas, Office of the State Fire Marshal, Illinois Fire Safety Alliance, First Alert, FEMA/UFSA, Illinois Heart Rescue, Peoples Gas, and the Hero Project to name a few.  The program was free for attending members, and provided great material for fire departments to provide to their communities.

This past Monday, CLC’s Tech Campus received a PPE donation from Beach Park Fire as approved by the Board of Trustees. Enjoy training in the new gear kids!

As of 01/28/2020, the Gurnee 9-1-1 Dispatch Center has implemented a new dispatching system in Lake County, replacing the old flip card method of collecting caller information. This program helps aid dispatchers in asking a series of medical questions critical to the emergency, while updating police and fire personnel responding to the scene simultaneously.

Media Release – Communications MPDS Implementation

The Beach Park Fire Department would like to introduce to you the newest equipment on our ambulances! Our department was able to purchase two Zoll X-series cardiac monitors with a grant awarded by FEMA/DHS worth $74,500. On every ambulance call, our cardiac monitors are used to help our crews obtain vital signs such as: heart rate, blood pressure, pulse oximetry levels, carbon monoxide levels, and cardiac rhythms. The current cardiac monitors on the front lines have done an excellent job aiding in the care of our patients for the last 10+ years, but had their limitations. With these new monitors, personnel will be able to detect and treat acute cardiac issues more quickly, efficiently, effectively to help improve the quality of care to our patients. In cardiac specific emergencies,  studies reveal that every second counts and rapid intervention is crucial to a more positive outcome. We are now able to transmit the data and rhythms we see in patients out in the field to receiving hospitals, which helps emergency room personnel gain a better insight to the conditions at hand. We are excited to be able to provide a standard of service that our community members and visitors deserve!

Congratulations Jenna, Sara, and Nicole on your newest achievement: graduating from the Northwest Lake County Fire Academy! These women spent the past 5 months completing 290 hours of classroom and live fire evolution trainings, along with additional hours training at the department to accomplish this goal. We are proud to have you as our newest firefighters!

Congratulations!

(Shown from left to right: Deputy Chief Fred Friedl, FF/PM Wojcik, FF/PM Sigafus, FF/PS Wells, Chief Paul Tierney)