Box Alarm Cards

All jurisdictions in Illinois, as well as some in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri, provide each other with mutual aid through the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System, or MABAS. Automatic mutual aid through MABAS is available to participating jurisdictions for a variety of needs such as structure fires, specialty rescue, hazardous materials (HazMat) or fire investigations, to name a few. The type, quantity, and origin of mutual aid units for incidents of various sizes are recorded on box cards, which are developed by each fire department based on assessments of local fire hazards, staffing, and resources. Instructions for creating box cards can be found by clicking here and templates can be found here. Active MABAS Division 4 Box Cards can be found below.

• Antioch Fire Department
• Barrington Countryside Fire Department
• Barrington Fire Department
• Beach Park Fire Department
• Buffalo Grove Fire Department
• Countryside Fire Department
• Deerfield-Bannockburn Fire Department
• Fox Lake Fire Department
• Grayslake Fire Department
• Great Lakes Naval Fire Department
• Greater Round Lake Fire Department
• Gurnee Fire Department
• Highland Park Fire Department
• Lake Bluff Fire Department
• Lake Forest Fire Department
• Lake Villa Fire Department
• Lake Zurich Fire Department
• Libertyville Fire Department
• Lincolnshire Riverwoods Fire Department
• Long Grove Fire Department
• Mundelein Fire Department
• Newport Fire Department
• North Chicago Fire Department
• Prospect Heights Fire Department
• Wauconda Fire Department
• Waukegan Fire Department
• Wheeling Fire Department
• Winthrop Harbor Fire Department
• Zion Fire Department