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On Dec. 21, Fermilab Fire Department provided mutual-aid assistance to Argonne Fire Department for a structure fire at the Visitors Center. Fermilab provided Argonne National Laboratory with a fire engine and a fire chief. This is a historic first for both laboratories. Fermilab fire station was promptly backfilled with daytime staff and off-shift fire department members for the duration of the incident. Fermilab Fire Department members in the photo: Battalion Chief Brian Schopp, Lieutenant Christopher Hurst, Firefighter Frank Schimpf, Firefighter Christopher Crawford, and Firefighter Caitlin Bryant.

Fermilab’s Roads and Grounds team use prescribed burns to restore land around the lab.

On May 21, the Fermilab Fire Department assisted the surrounding communities in suppressing a large fire at the Pheasant Run facility in St. Charles.

In late September, Fire, Security and Medical Department personnel are trained to learn how to proceed in the event a medical helicopter would be needed at the Fermilab site.

On Sept. 29, a Fermilab fire truck parked as the firefighter checks a hydrant.

When a fire broke out at a nearby apartment building, employees at the company excavating the caverns for the LBNF/DUNE project didn’t hesitate to respond.

In May 2021, James Ranson takes the training from the Fire Department on how to use fire extinguishers correctly, using a simulated fire. This is the last time Ranson takes extinguisher training before his retirement in 2022.

This picture of a prairie burn was captured a few years ago.

Fermilab Roads and Grounds conducts a prairie burn inside the Main Injector on March 5. The trees on the right side of the plume are 20-plus feet tall.

Fermilab Roads and Grounds personnel burn Prairie Plot 12 inside the Main Injector.