Quincy Fire Department

The City of Quincy will continue its 175th Anniversary celebration on Saturday, October 3 when the Quincy Fire Department will hold a parade of fire fighting apparatus down Maine Street. The public is invited to the parade of fire trucks beginning at 1 p.m. that Saturday beginning at 12th and Maine to proceeding to 5th and Maine Streets.

The Quincy Fire Department is again selling commemorative t-shirts to raise funds for the Blessing Cancer Center's Financial Assistance Program. This year the shirts are black in color. The design features a full back logo with the breast cancer ribbons, dressed as firefighters, operating an old Quincy Fire Department hand pumper in observance of the City of Quincy's 175th Anniversary of being a c

The 27th Annual Teddy Bear Clinic will be held this Sunday afternoon from noon to 3 p.m. at Blessing Hospital's main entrance. As the founder of this event 27 years ago, the staff at Blessing Riemann College of Nursing was kind enough to name one of two new gigantic Teddy Bears after me last year.  He is known as the "Dorsey Bear" and the other is known as "Flo" after Florence

The Quincy Fire Department has proudly announced that four firefighters will be receiving the Firefighting Excellence Award from the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal.

Whether you agree with the new budget cuts or not, the City of Quincy is between a rock and a hard place. The $2-Million revenue stream from the State of Illinois is all but gone and the city needs to find ways to offset that loss. That is not an easy task. So it is time to come up with some creative thinking.

On Monday, October 13th from 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., at the Kroc Center gymnasium, members of the Quincy Fire Department and the Quincy Fire Department Explorer Post 104 will put their volleyball skills to the test.

In conjunction with Fire Prevention Week, the Quincy Fire Department will be holding their Annual Fire Prevention Week Kickoff event on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Quincy Mall. Their theme this year is "Working Smoke Alarms Save Lives: Test Yours Every Month." The event will be held on the South parking lot in front of Bergners with the Fountain Court area utilized in case of bad w

First Responders of the Quincy Fire Department and the Tri-Township Fire Department are receiving a total of seven animal rescue oxygen mask kits through a donation from Invisible Fence Brand.

The Quincy Fire Department has received notification regarding a recall of some Kidde Smoke and Kidde Combination Smoke and CO Alarms. There has been a recall of the Kidde products based on testing that shows that some of the units sold will not alert consumers of a fire or a CO incident following a power outage.

Ever want to go to Six Flags' Fright Fest but couldn't find a way to get there? Well, you now have the opportunity to go this October via a bus trip to Six Flags on Saturday, October 25.