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The District serves portions of Darien, Woodridge and unincorporated DuPage County. Approximate District borders: North - Maple Avenue, South - I 55, East - Cass Avenue, West - I 355.

Personnel consists of 29 sworn, 25 part-time, 5 administrative, 5 elected trustees and 3 appointed commissioners. Three stations manned 24 hours per day. Staffing is 13 personnel per shift maximum to a minimum of 11 personnel.

Approximately 2,600 annual emergency calls, 58% Emergency Medical Incidents, 42% Fire / Service Incidents. In-district average emergency incident response time is approximately 5 minutes.

Maintains 19 vehicles, 1 ladder truck with ALS equipment, 3 engines, 2 of which with ALS equipment for EMS calls, 1 rescue squad, 1 brush truck, 1 fire investigation unit, 1 Battalion Chief vehicle, 3 ALS ambulances, and 8 other support vehicles. One of the first in the region to provide advanced life support since 1979.

Insurance Service Office class 3 public grading

Received Residential Fire Institution Life Safety Achievement Awards for 6 years in recognition of no fire deaths and the Illinois Inspectors Awards every year for the past 10 years for fire prevention activity competition.

Nominated "Fire District of the Year" for two years by the Northern Illinois Alliance of Fire Protection Districts for its progressive and innovative approach to today's fire service.

View our 2009 Annual Report

Darien-Woodridge Fire Protection District Incidents

2009 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC

FIRE 95 55 71 73 77 99 96 71 66

AMB 132 98 132 102 106 120 123 132 128

TOTAL 227 153 203 175 183 219 219 203 194

2008 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC

FIRE 120 103 71 87 79 112 95 79 80 81 83 125

AMB 147 147 150 120 128 134 134 117 133 121 116 133

TOTAL 267 250 221 207 207 246 229 196 213 202 196 258

Based on 2008 statistics:

The Fire District responded to 2,693 incidents, involving 10,276 man-hours

The 2,693 incidents required a total of 5,491 vehicle responses

There were 7.37 calls per day

There was one call every 3.25 hours

There was one medical call every 5.71 hours

There was one non-medical call every 7.55 hours

The average length of time for all incidents was 47 minutes

The average length of time for a medical call was 1 hour 3 minutes

The average length of time for a non-medical call was 26 minutes

Mutual aid was requested 236 times

Mutual aid was provided 246 times

The average response time for the first unit to arrive was 5 minutes 20 seconds

The average response time for the second unit to arrive was 6 minutes 46 seconds

Total fire loss was $375,750

The total value of the property that was involved in the fires was $7,085,200. This equates to a “value saved” of 94.67%