On the Scene with Mokena ESDA

On The Scene

Van 285 responds to a MABAS 19 call to a submerged vehicle fatality in March 2001.

Mokena lights up the aftermath of a natural gas explosion in Romeoville.

ESDA assists Mokena FPD during a Front Street commercial fire and another time at a burndown training event.

Mokena participates in several joint-agency Roadside Safety Checks, this one recently in New Lenox.

Truck 1586 participating in a vehicle display on Wacker Dr. in Downtown Chicago sponsored by the
Cook County Emergency Management Agency in August of 1996.

Command Bus 285 called to Assist Frankfort F.P.D. with fire investigation involving Will County, A.T.F., and State Fire Marshal

Mokena ESDA provides crowd control at a unique local accident involving vehicle vs. apartment building.

ESDA personnel were requested to assist at the scene of a train derailment involving an Amtrak train in nearby Bourbonnais on March 15-16, 1999. Over a dozen passengers were killed and more than 100 injured when their train collided at a crossing with a tractor-trailer. ESDA's mobile incident command center, pictured on right, was used by the Bourbonnais Fire Chief and other commmand personnel, while ESDA's lighting and rescue squad, pictured left, was put into action providing lights on the north side of the incident scene.

ESDA is called on during a hazardous materials incident that forced the evacuation of several businesses, including a day care center. Former ESDA Coordinator Harold Damron (standing) together with Police Chief Steve Pollak (foreground) and Former Mokena Fire District Deputy Chief Joe Holomy track the incident response from inside van 285, ESDA's mobile incident command center.

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