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Local Firefighters Help with Flood Recovery
The immediate area is sending some equipment and manpower to southern Illinois in order to help aid in flood recovery there.

Galesburg Fire Chief Tom Simkins says firefighters Brock Schmitt and John Seitz took a decontamination unit from the local Mutual Aid Box Alarm System to Marion, Illinois, to used to help clean up first responders, National Guard members, and others helping clean up following the ongoing flooding in that area.

Simkins tells WGIL the request for help was made just Monday and coordinated very quickly.

"We got a call last [Monday] night, and it seems like they never give you a lot of lead time, but they asked if we would bring our decontamination unit down and be there by one o'clock [Tuesday] in Marion."

Simkins says the state is rotating four decontamination units in and out, and he expects Schmidt and Seitz to be gone seven to ten days, with all their expenses paid under the state disaster declaration made in that area.

The decon unit in question is typically housed with the Clover Township Fire Department in Woodhull.
05 03 11 by Newsroom
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