Fire

Channahon Fire Protection District

The Channahon Fire Protection District (link) serves about 14,000 residents within an approximate 40 square mile area, including portions of Interstate 55, DuPage River, and Des Plaines River. Our staff serve a diverse community comprised of residential, commercial, and industrial occupancies.  The District has two staffed stations. Station Number 1 - Headquarters is located at 24929 S Center Street, and Station Number 2 is located at 23370 S Thomas Dillon Drive. Both stations are staffed 24/7 with Firefighter/Paramedics. 

Primary services include fire suppression and emergency medical response, however, due to the complex hazards of water rescue and industry, specialty teams such as Technical Rescue and Water and Dive Rescue are maintained and active within our mutual aid agreements. In addition, the fire district has entered into several automatic aids and mutual aid agreements within our MABAS group to broaden the available resources and establish rapid deployment to various emergencies. 

The District is active in community education and risk reduction (link) with various safety programs, fire inspections (link), and target hazard pre-planning. 

Click here (link) to obtain a copy of the CFPD annual report to learn how the district serves the Channahon community.

Coal City Fire Protection District

A small portion of the Village of Channahon, located south of the Des Plaines/Illinois River, is protected by the Coal City Fire Protection District (link). This area is generally unoccupied and encompasses the southern riverbank near Dresden Clean Energy Center.

In 1966, the Coal City Fire Protection District was formed.  Today, the District comprises a full-time Fire Chief, a full-time Deputy Fire Chief, six full-time Lieutenants, 9 Career Firefighter/Paramedics, 35 paid-on-call and part-time firefighters, and Emergency Medical Technicians providing ALS emergency medical services—one full-time administrative assistant.  The District protects 55 square miles with various occupancies from residential to nuclear electric generation.

The District protects approximately 10,500 Grundy County, Coal City, Diamond, and Carbon Hill residents.

When the District was formed, the board of trustees and membership determined that “Omaha Orange” would be the most visible color for the District.  Since then, Coal City Fire tradition has called for all equipment to be painted this color with reflective black stripes, which was added in 1993.

The Coal City Fire Protection District is a member of MABAS Division 15 and Chief Shabbona Firefighter’s Training Association.  Additionally, the District is a participating member of MABAS 15 HazMat, Dive Teams, and a member of the MABAS 15 Technical Rescue Team.

Minooka Fire Protection District

The Minooka Fire Protection District (link) serves the Grundy County portions of the Village. 

The District is comprised of:

  • A full-time fire chief
  • A Deputy Chief
  • A full-time Administrative Assistant
  • Ten career firefighter/paramedics
  • Nine contract firefighter/paramedics
  • 25 part-time/paid-per-call Firefighters and EMS personnel
  • A full-time public education instructor
  • A part-time fire inspector

Morris Fire and  Ambulance District

The Morris Fire and Ambulance District (link) encompasses the far western portions of the Village of Channahon. These areas are non-residential in nature and contain several industrial users.

The Morris Fire Protection District was established as an all-volunteer department in 1868. Currently we are comprised of a full-time Fire Chief, a Deputy Fire Chief and Assistant Fire Chief. A full-time office administrator and 1 part-time officer worker and 70 firefighter/EMT Paramedics. Our emergency response area covers 144 square miles from two Fire Stations including all the City of Morris and portions of the Village of Channahon. The population of our district is 22,000. The protection hazardous we have are very diverse. We have business, commercial, industrial, residential and agricultural exposures. We provide structural, wild land, airport, hazardous material, rescue operations and Advanced Life Support services to our communities. We protect 10 miles of Interstate 80 along with 28 miles of state highways comprised of State Route 6 and State Route 47. Our Morris Airport has a 5000-foot Runway with many T- Hangers and corporate hangers for jet aircraft. The railways deliver hazardous products to a very large industrial corridor on the eastern portion of our fire district. We have many miles of overhead transmission lines crossing thorough our Fire District including one of four 765kV power lines in the United States. The district is also crisscrossed many times by underground pipelines. We have a well-trained Swift Water Rescue Team to protect our portion of the Illinois River. We have three large inland grain elevators located on the Illinois River. Annually our fire suppression units respond to an average of 1800 fire calls and 2400 emergency medical calls along with 1500 non-emergency ambulance transport requests per year. 

Insurance Service Office Rating

Often times insurance companies and residents inquire as to what the Insurance Service Office (ISO) rating for the Village of Channahon. This is variable depending on the location and the fire protection district serving the location.

For the portion of the Village of Channahon that is protected by the Channahon Fire Protection District, the ISO rating is a Class 2. For the portion of the Village of Channahon that is protected by Minooka Fire Protection District, the ISO rating is a Class 3.

Due to a significant number of variables, please contact your insurance company to find the ISO rating of a particular address.