WFRD misses local fire call

1165 Greenwood Circle

At 9:43am (updated at 9:54am) the Northwest Herald published an online story about a residential fire yesterday at 2:43pm, right in the middle of funeral services for the late Michael Wurtz, who had been a firefighter with the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District.

"While the fire took place in Woodstock, none of the Woodstock firefighters could respond to the incident as they were attending fellow firefighter Mike Wurtz's funeral Tuesday," reported the Northwest Herald. (Woodstock Deputy Fire Chief Terry) Menzel said that other departments had agreed to handle calls for service. Other departments handled 16 calls for service from 8:00AM-6:30PM.

"Crews from Huntley, Hebron, Wonder Lake, Richmond, Cary, Union, McHenry, Nunda rural, Fox River Grove, and Marengo assisted on the call" at 1165 Greenwood Circle in Woodstock.

I may have missed a print article about yesterday's fire in this morning's Northwest Herald.