The more than 500 men and women – many of them volunteers – who have worked for the Lyons Fire Department over the past 125 years will not be forgotten, officials of the Village of Lyons said Nov. 28, 2021.
A red-brick memorial topped with a firefighter’s helmet and sitting outside the fire station, 4043 Joliet Ave., was dedicated on Nov. 28. About 200 attended.
Behind the memorial stands a new 35-foot flagpole topped with a 6-by-10-foot American flag.
“It’s fantastic. A great day. A great day for Lyons,” Fire Chief Gordon Nord, Jr., said. Mayor Christopher Getty said the memorial pays tribute “to all those past and present who helped create and shape the great organization of the Lyons Fire Department into what it is today.”