Administration & Operations

Responsibilities

Administration & Operations is responsible for overseeing a broad scope of the overall department. This includes maintaining fire incident records and reports, helping develop and maintain policies, procedures and Standard Operating Guidelines, and overseeing information technology. Other responsibilities include maintaining personnel records, payroll, fleet maintenance, and communications equipment. 

Vehicle Maintenance oversees our three million dollar fleet of emergency vehicles, which are critical to providing fire and life safety services to our residents. Vehicles are actually maintained using a collaborative effort between firefighters, the Village mechanic, the Pleasantview Fire District mechanic and 3rd party contractors. 

Additionally, support services are provided to Operations and Administration in areas such as Information Technology, Communications, etc.

Staff

Fire Department staffing consists of 50 personnel operating out of two fire stations. It is staffed mostly by paid-on-call personnel along with full-time contracted paramedics / firefighters. The Fire Chief is full-time and also serves as the Director of the Village's Emergency Management Agency. A Deputy Chief, three Captains and five Lieutenants make up the paid-on-call Officer staff. Paid-on-call personnel are all Village residents or otherwise work for the Fire Department with the contract service. All firefighters must become State of Illinois Certified Firefighters and licensed Emergency Medical Technicians.