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Fire companies from Wheaton, Oswego, Bolingbrook, Plainfield, Warrenville and Darien-Woodridge provided coverage to Naperville fire stations during the blaze.

LCFA has a total of 49 fire companies under its jurisdiction and also provides training of local firefighters.

Four of the towers were to go to volunteer fire companies: Upper Mountain, Olcott Fire Company, Terry's Corners Fire Company, in Royalton and Sweeney Hose Company in North Tonawanda.

"On arrival, fire companies found a heavy smoke condition in the unit,'' according to a press release from the Clinton Fire Department.

The automaker started the donating process in 2012 and it is designed to help fire companies and rescue squads around the US to practice on current-generation vehicles instead of old and outdated cars.

Fire Station 2 was selected for the downsizing because it's one of only two stations in the city with two fire companies, Brack said.

Fire companies responded immediately and quickly doused the fire.

There are 205 volunteer fire companies in the county.

The emergence of volunteer fire companies and the attempts of black citizens either to establish their own fire company or to integrate the white companies functions as a microcosm of the city's--and the nation's--history that parallels the larger, protracted national struggle for racial equality.