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A United States Forest Service wildland fire engine during the 2020 El Dorado Fire in California. A wildland fire engine or brush truck is a fire engine specifically designed to assist in fighting wildfires by transporting firefighters to the scene and providing them with access to the fire, along with water or other equipment.
Illinois State University (ISU) is a public research university in Normal, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University and is ...
The Forest Service contends, though, that 28 of the trade-ins ended up in museums across the country. [1] On the other side of the deal, the surplus aircraft were also valued at scrap prices by the Forest Service for the purposes of the exchange, as little as $15,000 each. The Forest Service later put the value of each plane at between $750,000 ...
The Illinois Land Conservation Act (Public Law 104-106) created the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, designated the transfer of 19,165 acres (7,756 ha) of land in Illinois from the U.S. Army to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The Illinois Land Conservation Act mandates that Midewin be managed to meet four primary objectives:
The E-ONE Vector is an all-electric fire truck. [27] REV Fire Group's Vector fire truck is the first full-electric North American fire truck. [27] It has been ordered in Charlotte, North Carolina, [28] Varennes, Quebec, [27] and Mesa, Arizona, [29] and Toronto, Canada, [30] and was used in the 2023 Daytona 500. [31]
Eastern Illinois University: Charleston: 1895 8,857 Master's Governors State University: University Park: 1969 4,427 Master's Illinois State University: Normal: 1857 20,683 Research University University of Illinois Chicago: Chicago: 1965 33,747 Research University Part of the University of Illinois system: University of Illinois Springfield ...
Cook Hall is one of "Altgeld's castles": it was designed toward the end of the administration of Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld. Altgeld was a German native who favored Gothic Revival architecture. [2] First proposed as a dormitory by Richard Edwards during his presidency at Illinois State University, the building was not approved until ...