Fire / Police

Normal firefighter Todd Denslow has to do some dumpster diving, to retrieve a hard wired smoke detector that was going off, behind the apartment building at 110 West Locust Street in Normal, Wednesday, June17, 2015. The building is undergoing repairs and workers threw away the detector along with other construction debris in a large dumpster behind the building. A citizen called in the detector which required a full structure fire response to the apartment building. STEVE SMEDLEY, The Pantagraph
Bloomington fire department Captain David Talley works with a crew as they cut open an east facing garage door to get at hidden fire as firefighters battle a large fire at Bentley Motors Inc., 1508 South Main Street, Bloomington on Saturday morning.
An OSF Healthcare’s Life Flight EUROCOPTER EC145 takes off with a patient from Advocate BroMenn Medical Center, Thursday, September 17, 2015. The helicopter is one of four EC145’s operated. STEVE SMEDLEY, The Pantagraph
DeWitt County Sheriff’s Deputy Adam Akeman poses outside the department in Clinton, wearing a body camera mounted on the center of his shirt, Friday, October 9, 2015. STEVE SMEDLEY, The Pantagraph
Normal Fire Department Truck 14 responds out of the new Headquarters Fire Station at 606 South Main Street.
A North Carolina Highway Patrolman posed with his squad car as an Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway freight train stops to work an industry.
An Illinois Department of Conservation Policeman collected stuffed dolls Wednesday morning, from the bank of Clinton Lake, while investigating Tuesday nights double fatality accident. The accident claimed the lives of two children, while a third remains in critical condition. A car in which they were riding in went into Clinton Lake at the West Side Access Area, East of Clinton, Illinois.
A Lincoln Fire Department firefighter stands in Kickapoo Street in downtown Lincoln as fire races through Simonson Flooring Center, a three-story brick building at the corner of South Kickapoo and Clinton streets in downtown Lincoln, on Friday, Dec 19, 2008. (The Pantagraph/Steve Smedley)
Lincoln Fire Department responds to a motor vehicle accident with injuries on Sunday evening, Jan. 28, 2007. The Logan County Courthouse and square is the downtown scene. Pantagraph/STEVE SMEDLEY
A Pontiac Police Department cruiser keeps vigil with a large photograph of Pontiac Police K-9 Officer Casey Kohlmeier and his police dog, Draco, outside Pontiac Township High School on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013. Both
Kohlmeier and his partner Draco were killed in the line of duty by a drunk driver. (The Pantagraph/STEVE SMEDLEY)
Captain Randy Allard of the East St. Louis Fire Department.
Normal Fire Department Lt. John Grussing calls for a ground ladder to rescue him and another firefighter from the third floor of an apartment building at 102 W. Phoenix Ave. after fire cut them off from an interior stairwell. The stubborn fire produced heavy amounts of smoke.
THE PANTAGRAPH/STEVE SMEDLEY
Downs Fire Protection District Engine 37 responds to an automatic fire alarm on Thursday April 10th.
Denis Kindred, the Atlanta assistant fire chief, uses engine 28 to block a 40 mile per hour wind so that he can use his portable radio while directing traffic around a wreck on Interstate 55 at the Atlanta on and off ramp Tuesday morning, Feb 13, 2007. (Pantagraph, Steve Smedley)
Atlanta Firefighters Michael Schmidt, left, and assistant fire cheif Denis Kindred, work on helping a stranded motorist whose vehicle is stuck in deep snow on Old Rt. US 66 and the entrance and exit ramp to Interstate 55, during the blizard on Tuesday morning, Feb. 13, 2007. The Interstate was closed in the south bound lanes for over an hour with a multiple vehicle accident. (Pantagraph, STEVE SMEDLEY)
Clinton Fire Department assistant chief Mike Spencer grimaced while fighting a house fire at 707 Woodlawn Street in Clinton. The house fire occured on Thursday morning Feb. 15, 2007, with firefighters encrusted in coatings of ice from the bitter cold temperatures. Pantagraph/STEVE SMEDLEY