About Us
Who We Are
Since 1891 O’Fallon Fire has been providing protection to the citizens of O’Fallon and the surrounding areas including the Village of Shiloh and the rural areas of the O’Fallon, Shiloh Valley, Caseyville, and St. Clair Townships. We are an ISO Class 3 rated agency and provide exceptional fire and rescue services through a combination of full time and volunteer personnel. In addition to our Fire Chief, we have 4 other full time employees. The majority of our fire suppression and rescue services are provided by 45 highly trained and dedicated volunteers distributed across 4 stations throughout our 44 square mile district.
Taking Care of Those Who Depend on Us
We’re proud to support the community with a variety of services including smoke alarm installation for the elderly and fire extinguisher training. We believe education is the cornerstone of fire prevention and spend multiple months throughout autumn visiting schools to teach kids about the importance of fire safety. We extend our fire prevention message beyond school aged children through 3 nights of open house the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of fire prevention week every October.
Our Mission
O’Fallon Fire Rescue is organized to provide a highly trained, rapid response fire rescue service to meet the needs of the residents of one of the fastest growing areas in southern Illinois.
Engine Houses
Because we’re comprised of mostly volunteers, our firehouses are not staffed 24 x 7.
General questions can be directed to Fire Headquarters between 8:00am – 4:30pm.
618-624-4515
ALWAYS DIAL 9-1-1 FOR EMERGENCIES!
Apparatus
We invite you to explore the variety of fire apparatus we use to protect the citizens of our fire district, including four engines, a heavy rescue squad, two aerials, two brush trucks, a tender/tanker and several support vehicles. We’re also proud of our two antique trucks, a 1930 Chevy and a 1949 Mack.
A Special Thanks To:
Dennis Maag from Fire Apparatus Journals for the photos of several of our apparatus.
SUPPORT & COMMAND VEHICLES
We utilize a variety of additional vehicles to provide excellent service to our citizens. In addition to “fire trucks” we utilize the below vehicles in various capacities including initial response and evaluation of the incident, support at large incidents, officer coverage, duty assignments, daily operations and firefighter rehab.
Members
Active Firefighters
| Doug Barron, Lieutenant | Stephen Bayak | Patrick Berens |
| John Boling | Terry Bowman, Jr. | Nikki Brantley |
| Jeff Burrow | Eric Dickson | Steve Donahue, Captain |
| Josh Eckert | Cory Ellis | Tommy Henry (Honorary) |
| RJ Fechtler | Ray Flaiz | Bill Graboske |
| Erick Harris, Deputy Chief | Frank Hautly | Doug Hubbard |
| Scott Hubbard | Chris Kaiser | Dan Lindow |
| Mike Lynch | Chelsie McWhorter, Lieutenant | Ryan McWhorter |
| Dan Mersinger, Safety Officer | John Nichols | Frank Ratay |
| Craig Schmidt, Assistant Chief | Frank Shewmaker, Captain | Mike Shewmaker |
| Rob Shewmaker | Odell Smith | Jeff Talley |
| Cody VanDriel | Kasey Wandling | Riley Weaver |
| Brad White, Chief | Jon Williams, Lieutenant | Dave Willmont |
| Jaydon York |
Officers
| Chief Brad White (4300) | Deputy Chief Erick Harris (4301) | Assistant Chief Craig Schmidt (4302) |
| Captain Frank Shewmaker (4303) | Captain Steve Donahue (4304) | Captain Tim Claxton (4305) |
| Lieutenant Jon Williams (4306) | Lieutenant Chelsie McWhorter (4307) | Lieutenant Doug Barron (4308) |
| Lieutenant (Vacant) (4309) |
Support & Administration
| Mark Goenen, Fire Educator & Inspector | Jennifer Valentine, Administrative Assistant | Scott Adkins, Chaplain |
O’Fallon Volunteer Fire Company Board
| Chelsie McWhorter, President | Doug Hubbard, Secretary | Scott Hubbard, Treasurer |
| Rob Shewmaker, Vice President | Vacant, Assistant Secretary | Jenny Valentine, Assistant Treasurer |
| Larry Mank, Trustee | Terry Bowman, Trustee | Pete Maclaughlin, Trustee |
Retired Firefighters
| Kevin Bachesta – Firefighter | Jerry Brewer – Deputy Chief | |
| Jason Bruns – Lieutenant / Safety Officer | Brian Butler – Engineer | Vic Eskra – Firefighter |
| Rod Hamilton – Engineer | Dane Harrel – Firefighter | Bill Henry – Chief |
| Mike Henry – Firefighter | Don Henson – Engineer | James Hertzler – Firefighter |
| Wes Kern – Lieutenant | John Kolb – Captain | Mike Kombrink – Firefighter |
| Ben Kroesen – Captain | Tom Lampe – Firefighter | Ron May – Firefighter |
| Jeff Mersinger – Engineer | Othmar Mersinger – Captain | Shawn Miller – Captain |
| Scott Munie – Safety Officer | Kent Rhines – Captain | Galyn Rushing – Deputy Chief |
| Joe Rushing – Lieutenant | Brent Saunders – Chief | Curt Schildknecht – Firefighter |
| Bob Schmidt – Lieutenant | Rich Sheedy – Firefighter | John Sissom – Firefighter |
| Gary Stein – Deputy Chief | Ken Weaver – Lieutenant | Ralph Wottowa – Captain |