Kankakee Township Fire Department

08/22/2026

Today we were invited to touch a truck at Rolling Prairie Elementary. Our crew had a blast showing off 742 and letting kids spray water. 🚒🔥

07/06/2026

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We are working on a grant to provide more opportunities to be active in partnership with our school community. Please take a few minutes to provide feedback. Thank you!

06/29/2026

We are currently under an extreme heat warning this week. Please be safe out there and check on your loved ones.

06/04/2026

Tonight, our members went out on this beautiful evening down to the elementary school to practice pumping and drafting from our drop tank. This training helps us better our skills for our community. 🚒🔥

05/22/2026

05/18/2026

Today at approximately 7:51am, we were dispatched to a vehicle accident involving a tree falling on an SUV on Fail Rd between State Rd 2 and US 20. The driver was pinned in and needed to be extricated. We called a heavy wrecker to the scene to assist with stabilizing the tree allowing us to work safely. Once the patient was extricated, we passed them along to EMS where the patient was airlifted to a hospital for further treatment. We would like to thank the following agencies who were involved in the rescue...

Springfield Township Volunteer Fire Department
Laporte City Fire Department
Laporte County EMS
Laporte County Sheriff's Department
Laporte County Highway Department
Quicks Towing
Lutheran Air III
Laporte County E911

Thank you all for helping us this morning.

Kankakee Township Fire Department

05/01/2026

The month of April has been a busy month for our department! We would like to congratulate Dylan Coffman, Andrew Mrozinski, Josh Dockery, and Codee Bird on becoming our newest members. We got updated photos in our Class-A Dress attire taken by To-A-T Photography. A Kankakee Township local business that does amazing work! You can see for yourself the outcome plus some behind the scenes photos that were taken in our station. Would also like to congratulate Lieutenant Jared Koselke and family on his daughter turning Seven Months old in the month of April! Since we are Station 7 they saw it fighting to have a wonderful photo shoot to commemorate! We ended the month with car extrication training. Those of us on Kankakee Township Volunteer Fire Department are thankful for the opportunity to serve and protect our community and we look forward to continuing our duties. Also don’t forget our pancake breakfast is this upcoming Sunday May 3rd from 7 AM- 11AM. The flyer is included at the end of this post for anymore questions on the Event. Thank you all and stay safe!