Quincy Fire Department
QUINCY — The Quincy Fire Department responded to a report of a kitchen fire at 1:57 p.m. Friday in a two-story brick apartment house at 1244 Kentucky. A press release from the Quincy Fire Department reported the first two crews arrived on scene simultaneously at 2:01 p.m. and spoke with the occupants, who reported all…
Read Full Article QUINCY – The Quincy Fire Department responded to a fire at 1123 N. 6th St. early Saturday morning at a two-story brick residence with four apartments. No one was injured, but two of the residents are displaced. QFD Engine Companies #4, #2, #6 and the Incident Commander responded. Pre-Arrival, QPD Officers reported flames visible to…
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Letter to the Editor: Firefighters union doesn't believe vote of no confidence in Troup is necessary
Quincy Firefighters Local 63 has an obligation to serve and look out for the best interests of our members. We will show support for our other local unions and do what we can when we can. Comments made by Robert Megee, president of the Quincy Police Benevolent and Protective Association Labor Unit 12, state that Local…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Quincy Fire Department responded to a call at about 5 p.m. Tuesday for a fire on the second floor of a mixed-use building in the 1100 block of Vermont. The building at 1131 ½ Vermont was commercial with a residential apartment on the second floor and built with block walls and wood…
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QUINCY — The Quincy City Council recommended approval Tuesday night to go into a contract with Banner Fire Equipment from Roxana to spend $1.182 million on two 2025 E-One fire trucks that the department won’t receive for two years. The Quincy Fire Department operates five trucks in “front line” status. However, Engine No. 7 is…
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QUINCY — No one was injured when firefighters from the Quincy Fire Department responded to a house fire Monday afternoon. The Quincy Fire Department was called at 2:20 p.m. to 307 S. 11th, where smoke was coming from the rear of the structure. Company No. 2 arrived on scene first and found heavy smoke surrounding…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Quincy Fire Department responded to a report of a fire at a home at 2024 Chestnut early Friday morning. When the first crew arrived a little after 1:30 a.m., smoke and flames were coming from the house, but all of the homes occupants were out, but one suffered a minor burn to…
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QUINCY — No one was injured as investigators continue to search for the cause of a fire Tuesday night in a Quincy home. The Quincy Fire Department responded at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a two-story residential wood frame home at 2945 Hampshire on fire, with flames coming from the windows. Upon arrival,…
Read Full Article QUINCY — A vacant commercial two-story brick building at 215 Oak has been declared a total loss after a Friday afternoon fire. The Quincy Fire Department was dispatched at 2:50 p.m. to a report of a structure fire in the Second and Oak area. Heavy smoke could be seen in the area by responding units. Upon…
Read Full Article QUINCY — No one was injured at a house fire Thursday afternoon at 831 N. Fifth. The Quincy Fire Department responded to a call at 2:07 p.m. for a house on fire at Fifth and Lind. Upon arrival, crews found smoke and fire coming from the front porch of the structure. Engine Company No. 4 pulled a…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Quincy Fire Department is once again the host of the annual citizen fire academy, an opportunity for people to get an inside look at the fire department and learn about the multitude of services provided to the community through live demonstrations and hands-on experiences alongside Quincy firefighters. The academy starts Tuesday, April…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Quincy Fire Department “Keep the Wreaths Red” program ended at midnight Jan. 1. The annual public education initiative is designed to promote fire safety during the holiday season. It ran from Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, until midnight on Jan. 1, 2023. Wreaths with red lights were displayed at each Quincy fire station,…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Fire Department kicked off its annual “Keep the Wreath Red” program Wednesday at Central Fire Station, 906 Vermont. The program will run from Nov. 23 to midnight Jan. 1, 2023. Each Quincy Fire Department station, along with program sponsors Ameren Illinois and Refreshment Services Pepsi, will have a wreath with red…
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QUINCY — Chief Bernie Vahlkamp and Deputy Chief Steve Salrin with the Quincy Fire Department couldn’t convince the Quincy City Council not to make three changes to an ordinance to adopt the 2018 series of the International Code Council model code for the city’s building code. Aldermen voted at the end of the meeting to…
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QUINCY — Quincy firefighters responded Monday night to a fire in the second story of a home at 314 N. Eighth. Bernie Vahlkamp, chief of the Quincy Fire Department, said the call came into the Quincy Fire Department at 8 p.m. Firefighters with Engine 2 at Central Fire Station, 906 Vermont, were the first to…
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QUINCY — Quincy Police have arrested a juvenile male in connection with starting the fire at a vacant building Wednesday evening in Quincy’s Calftown neighborhood. Police say based on evidence gathered during interviews and found at the scene of the fire at 649 State, the preliminary investigation concluded the fire was incendiary in nature. The…
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QUINCY — A building on the northeast corner of Seventh and State, where three people died in a fire in 2008 and a man was convicted for setting the fire and murdering them, was ablaze again Wednesday night. Quincy Fire Chief Bernie Vahlkamp said the call came in at 5:48 p.m. Wednesday, and it quickly…
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QUINCY — A deceased male found by Quincy firefighters during a fire on Quincy’s north side in the early morning hours of March 29 has been identified as Dustin Willis. Detectives with the Quincy Police Department and investigators with the Quincy Fire Department investigated the cause and origin of the fire at 1021 N. Fourth,…
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QUINCY — Quincy Police Chief Rob Copley said his department is “drowning” and needs to hire 10 more officers during a Monday meeting in City Council chambers as aldermen reviewed the city’s proposed 2022-23 budget. Chief Bernie Vahlkamp said the fire department is proposing a $12.9 million spending plan, a 5.48 percent increase over the…
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QUINCY — Quincy firefighters responded to an apartment fire at 901 N. Ninth that displaced two families from their homes on Friday morning. The Quincy Fire Department was dispatched at 8:55 a.m. to the Frederick Ball apartment complex after it received a report of visible smoke and flames. Two trucks were on the scene. Fire…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Quincy firefighters found a body during a fire on Quincy’s north side early Tuesday morning. Fire Chief Bernie Vahlkamp said the call came in at 3:47 a.m. and crews responded to the fire in the Fourth and Cherry area, 1021 N. Fourth. Vahlkamp said the building was a two story machine shed with…
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QUINCY — Fire Station 6 at 24th and Cedar was briefly closed twice in the past 30 days because of a lack of available firefighters. “A guy called in sick in the morning. We had four guys in Chicago training, and we had some guys taking vacation days,” Fire Chief Bernie Vahlkamp said of the…
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Deals get done in many forms and in many places. Lunches … golf … beers … board rooms … back rooms … They don’t get done when little work is done on the front end, and most of the people involved are blindsided. The idea of giving the mayor the sole power to hire the…
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QUINCY – Quincy City Treasurer Linda Moore gave a detailed report to the Quincy City Council Monday night that showed the City is on track to bring in more revenue than expected from the Food and Beverage tax. So far, the one-cent increase has brought in more than $716,000 to city coffers this year. City…
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QUINCY — As the Quincy City Council recognized the new, it also took an opportunity to say thanks to the old. Bernie Vahlkamp, who has been with the Quincy Fire Department since August 1997, was introduced as the next fire chief at Monday night’s City Council meeting. He was one of three finalists to meet…
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