Full Text of HR0412 94th General Assembly
HR0412 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Mt. Olive Volunteer Fire Department is | 3 |
| celebrating its 125th anniversary; and
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| WHEREAS, The Mt. Olive Volunteer Fire Department was | 5 |
| established by the Mt. Olive Village Board on September 30, | 6 |
| 1880; the Village Board of Trustees had a fire engine, hose, | 7 |
| cart, and other supplies, and turned the same over to the | 8 |
| organization to use and take care of; and
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| WHEREAS, On August 1, 1867, Rescue No. 2, consisting of 25 | 10 |
| members, was admitted into this organization with their engine, | 11 |
| "Little Giant", and other supplies; the organization was then | 12 |
| divided into two bodies and one was designated as Division A | 13 |
| and the other as Division B; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1917, the Village of Mt. Olive constructed a | 15 |
| village hall and the Fire Department occupied the ground floor | 16 |
| level; a bell tower was included in the construction to house a | 17 |
| bell that would toll and alert the volunteers to a fire call | 18 |
| within the city; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1966, the City of Mt. Olive purchased a | 20 |
| building to convert into a new city hall, police station, and | 21 |
| fire station; through the hard work of the volunteer | 22 |
| department, the south portion of the building was converted | 23 |
| into a fire station; the department had two offices, a meeting | 24 |
| room, kitchen facilities, rest room, and six apparatus bays; a | 25 |
| civil defense siren was placed on the roof to alert the public | 26 |
| and was also used to alert the volunteer firemen in the event | 27 |
| of fire call, replacing the ringing of the fire bell for fire | 28 |
| calls; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1979, the Mt. Olive Township Trustees called a | 30 |
| meeting to organize the Mt. Olive Area Ambulance Service, Inc.; |
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| an ambulance was purchased and housed in the fire station, and | 2 |
| the crew utilized one of the offices in the station; and
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| WHEREAS, In April of 1986, the Mt. Olive Volunteer Fire | 4 |
| Department asked the voters to establish a fire protection | 5 |
| district; the vote passed in the Macoupin County Townships but | 6 |
| failed in the Montgomery County Townships, so the new district | 7 |
| was only formed in Macoupin County; with the transfer of | 8 |
| equipment to the newly formed Fire Protection District, the | 9 |
| volunteer fire department became the fire fighting force; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1989, the volunteer fire department began | 11 |
| recruiting high school students into a Junior Fire Fighting | 12 |
| program; ten years later, the fire district became a member of | 13 |
| the St. John's Hospital Emergency Medical Services System; in | 14 |
| 2000, the Mt. Olive Fire Protection District and the Mt. Olive | 15 |
| Area Ambulance Service, Inc., were awarded a joint Illinois | 16 |
| First Grant in the amount of $350,000 to construct a new | 17 |
| station; the new station was completed in January of 2001 at a | 18 |
| cost of about $350,000 in grant funds and about $20,000 in | 19 |
| volunteers funds; and
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| WHEREAS, In March of 2002, the citizens of Montgomery | 21 |
| County voted to annex into the Mt. Olive Fire Protection | 22 |
| District, adding about 32 square miles to the coverage area for | 23 |
| a total of 64 square miles of coverage; the same year, the City | 24 |
| of Mt. Olive donated the old fire bell, that had been removed | 25 |
| from the old city hall; this bell was placed outside the new | 26 |
| station in a monument dedicated to all past and present fire | 27 |
| fighters; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 29 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 30 |
| we congratulate the Mt. Olive Volunteer Fire Department on the | 31 |
| occasion of its 125th anniversary, and we honor all the members | 32 |
| of the Department, past and present, for their heroic efforts |
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| to save lives; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 3 |
| presented to the Mt. Olive Volunteer Fire Department as an | 4 |
| expression of our respect and esteem.
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