Village takes out $1.5M loan to buy new fire truck

Village takes out $1.5M loan to buy new fire truck

After the Forest Park Fire Department had to retire its ladder truck last year, at a recent structure fire in Forest Park, a mutual aid fire truck company was delayed. So Forest Park firefighters had to rescue a resident from a third-story window with a ground ladder, set at an unsafe angle against the burning home, according to Forest Park Fire Chief Lindsey Hankus.   While that rescue was successful, it demonstrated the dangerous position the …