Department Resources
STAFFING
The South Elgin & Countryside FPD is a combination department with full-time and part-time members. Our current staffing consists of 41 full-time and 15 part-time firefighters. Each full-time firefighter is a paramedic and the part-time firefighters are, at minimum, emergency medical technicians.
We also staff a full-time Administrative Office Manager and a part-time Administrative Assistant, a full-time Civilian Fire Inspector, and a part-time Fire Prevention Bureau Office Assistant.
APPARATUS
The Fire District operates:
Three ALS engines, a tender, a tower ladder,
three ALS ambulances, one EMS-equipped Ranger 6x6,
two rescue boats, a dive van, one HazMat trailer,
six staff vehicles, and one brush truck.
FIRE STATIONS
South Elgin & Countryside Fire Protection District has three stations that are manned 24 hours a day, seven days a week:
Station 21
Headquarters Station
1090 W. Spring Street
South Elgin, IL 60177
Phone: 847-741-2141
Station 22
2055 McDonald Road
South Elgin, IL 60177
Phone: 847-531-8641
Station 23
498A South Elgin Boulevard
South Elgin, IL 60177
Phone: 847-648-9401