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MACOMB, IL  --  The Macomb/McDonough County 911 Dispatch Center has started a public awareness campaign to educate homeowners and property owners in McDonough County of the importance of properly posting their address. The PSA reads: Posting your physical address at your home is more than a...

MACOMB, IL - Emmet - Chalmers Firefighters wish everyone a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving. Cooking fires nearly double on Thanksgiving Day, occurring more than twice as often than on another day. Thanksgiving Day home fires cause more property damage and claim more lives than home fires...

MACOMB, IL  -  Emmet - Chalmers Firefighters provide mutual aid to the Good Hope/Sciota Fire Protection District for a structure fire. From the McDonough Voice: http://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/article/20141120/NEWS/141129950 From WGEM News: http://www.wgem.com/story/27434303/2014/11/19/crews-respond-to-fire-in-rural-mcdonough-county #fire #mabas #mutualaid...

MACOMB, IL  -  Emmet - Chalmers Firefighters hosted their 12th annual Pancake and Sausage Breakfast on Saturday, November 8. Photos from the McDonough Voice: http://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/photogallery/IO/20141112/POLL/111209998/PH/165_166_218_303_629   #fundraiser #pancakes...

MACOMB, IL - The Emmet-Chalmers Fire Protection District, through the great support from their constituents, has put ten new sets gear out into the field. This gear has the latest safety requirements and has new features to keep the firefighters safe. All new gear has to pass National...

MACOMB, IL  --  Emmet-Chalmers Firefighters participated in the Western Illinois University  Fire Club's stair climb in Thompson Hall. Emmet-Chalmers Firefighters and other local emergency personnel competed in an eighteen floor relay race, ascending and descending, in full turn-out gear while carrying common firefighting equipment and...

Join us in honoring the lives of 98 firefighters who died in the line of duty during 2013 and nine firefighters who died in previous years during the 33rd National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service on Sunday, October 12. The service begins at 10:00 a.m. (ET)...