Excerpts from MySuburbanLife.com: It's hard to believe that after nearly 70 years, the Krohn brothers still haven't settled who was the first to join the New Lenox Fire Department. But on Wednesday, they came together at Fire Station 1—bringing with them a piece of local history. In February 1939, the brothers were just kids in Orland Park when they saw smoke in the distance. A short time later, their mom arrived and told them there was no home left to go back to. The family moved to Cedar Road in New Lenox, and soon after, they started helping out at the fire station. When a fire was reported, volunteers would rush to the station by siren. Dale remembered working at Otto’s Garage and running to his bike to get to Church Street and set off the alarm. Others would then come to grab the equipment. Back in those days, burning barns and grass fires along the Rock Island Line were the most common calls. Gene served from 1948 to 1975, Dale from 1950 to 1964, Wade from 1952 to 1964, and Glen joined in 1960 and continues as a fire trustee today. “When I joined, there was a rack of gear—every raincoat was a size 48 and every boot was a size 12,†Gene said. “I could even put slippers in those boots and they fit just fine.†Glen worked alongside Dale at Otto’s Garage, while Wade worked at the hardware store next door. Gene worked the day shift at Caterpillar in Joliet but had a dedicated “fire phone†line in his house for 20 years to handle emergency calls at night. Each brother has countless stories about life in the firehouse—some dangerous, others funny in hindsight. Glen once used a swimming pool to draw water during a house fire. Wade remembers letting a barn burn because the truck kept sliding on icy roads. Dale still recalls a fire so intense it melted the lights on the fire truck. And Gene owes his life to Ike Moore, known as “Mr. Five-By-Five,†who pulled him and another firefighter out of a burning farmhouse basement. “We all followed the same idea: if someone needed help, we helped,†Gene added. At the meeting last week, Gene gave Glen a special keepsake to present to the department—a replica of the original red light from the first fire truck in New Lenox, a 1941 Ford with a pump on the front. Glen handed it over to Chief Steve Engledow. “Looks like it still works,†Engledow said. “There’s a lot of history here.†Thanks, Dan. Smc Rotary Cylinder,Festo Rotary Cylinder,3 Position Rotary Cylinder,Rotary Air Cylinder ShinYee (Zhejiang) Pneumatic Technology Co., LTD , https://www.pneuvalve.com