Kankakee Township Fire Department

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!

03/28/2026

On Wednesday, our members along with Springfield Township Volunteer Fire Department and Laporte County Hazmat went to Keystone Corporation in Rolling Prairie to refresh on our anhydrous ammonia incident response. Farmers will soon start needing it and will be out in our area. Thank you Keystone and Hazmat for the great refresher! 🚒🔥🚜

03/21/2026

We spent Wednesday night at Springfield Township Volunteer Fire Departments Training Center where our firefighters encountered live fire. Not only did our guys get to put out fire, they also searched and found victims as well. Thank you Springfield for allowing us to utilize your training center to help us improve for our community 🔥🚒

03/08/2026

We are organizing support for the Thornton family as they navigate the devastating loss of their sweet baby, Casey, who passed away at just 7 months old. Casey brought an immeasurable amount of light and joy into this world during his short time with us. While there are no words to take away the pai...

12/18/2025

As the year wraps up, our members participated in a little activity we call Extrication Jenga. We got to train on our tools, but also play a competitive game. Last night we had teams of two take turns removing blocks with tools while trying to keep the tower upright. Happy Holidays 🎄🚒🔥

12/11/2025

Tonight our Members and their families came together at the fire house to celebrate Christmas. Santa came and delivered gifts to all the kids. Everyone stay safe for the holidays. 🎄🚒🔥🎅