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
- Alexander, Ryan
Firefighter - Attaway, Logan
Firefighter - Barron, Douglas
Deputy Chief - Bennett, David
Firefighter - Berens, Patrick
Firefighter - Berheide, Adam
Firefighter - Blaylock, Austin
Firefighter - Burrow, Jeff
Firefighter - Caticchio, Max
Firefighter - Claxton, Timothy
Captain - Cleary, Aaron
Firefighter - Cooper, Dean
Firefighter - Crosley, Luke
Firefighter - Dickson, Eric
Firefighter - Dunn, Natalia
Firefighter - Eckert, Joshua
Firefighter - Girard, Cameron
Firefighter - Gonzalez, Cesar
Firefighter - Good, Tyler
Firefighter - Graboske, William
Firefighter - Griffin, Todd
Firefighter
- Hernandez, Logan
Firefighter - Hopkins, Alesha
Firefighter - Hubbard, Douglas
Firefighter - Hubbard, Scott
Firefighter - Hutchins, Hayleigh
Firefighter - Jackson, Brandon
Firefighter - Jones, William
Firefighter - Kaiser, Christopher
Firefighter - Krabel, Elijah
Firefighter - Langreder, Luke
Firefighter - Lindow, Daniel
Firefighter - Lynch, Michael
Firefighter - Markovich, Matthew
Firefighter - McCabe, James
Firefighter - McWhorter, Ryan
Firefighter - Meeks, Darion
Firefighter - Mersinger, Daniel
Lieutenant/Safety Officer
- Nichols, John
Firefighter - Parker, Nicolas
Firefighter - Pierce, Collin
Firefighter - Ratay, Frank
Firefighter - Ross, Aiden
Firefighter - Saunders, James
Firefighter - Schmidt, Craig
Assistant Chief - Shewmaker, Frank
Captain - Shewmaker, Robert
Firefighter - Smith, Odell
Firefighter - Weaver, Riley
Firefighter - White, Bradley
Chief - Williams, Jon
Captain - York, Jaydon
Firefighter
Officers
| Chief Brad White (4300) | Deputy Chief Doug Barron (4301) | Assistant Chief Craig Schmidt (4302) |
| Captain Frank Shewmaker (4303) | Captain Tim Claxton (4304) | Captain Jon Williams (4305) |
| Lieutenant Dan Mersinger (4306) | Lieutenant (Vacant) (4307) | Lieutenant (Vacant) (4308) |
| Lieutenant (Vacant) (4309) |
Support & Administration
| Sara Stockstrom, Fire Safety Educator | Kacie White, Administrative Assistant | Scott Adkins, Chaplain |
O’Fallon Volunteer Fire Company Board
| Rob Shewmaker, President | Jay York, Secretary | Scott Hubbard, Treasurer |
| Riley Weaver, Vice President | Mike Lynch, Assistant Secretary | Kacie White, Assistant Treasurer |
| Cameron Girard, Trustee | Logan Hernandez, Trustee | Aaron Cleary, Trustee |
Retired Firefighters
Kevin Bachesta
Terry Bowman Jr.
Jerry Brewer
Jason Bruns
Brian Butler
Steve Donahue
Vic Eskra
RJ Fechtler
Ray Flaiz
Rod Hamilton
Dane Harrel
Frank Hautly
Bill Henry
Mike Henry
Don Henson
Wes Kern
John Kolb
Mike Kombrink
Ben Kroesen
Ron May
Jeff Mersinger
Ott Mersinger
Shawn Miller
Scott Munie
Kent Rhines
Galyn Rushing
Joe Rushing
Brent Saunders
Curt Schildknecht
Bob Schmidt
Rich Sheedy
Mike Shewmaker
John Sissom
Gary Stein
Ralph Wottowa