Museum preserves the heritage, history of Elgin Fire Dept.

Vice President Cathy Hemmings speaks about different fire stations located Elgphotographs second floor Fire Barn #5 Museum ElgSunday February 24

Vice President Cathy Hemmings speaks about the different fire stations located in Elgin in the photographs on the second floor of the Fire Barn #5 Museum in Elgin on Sunday, February 24, 2013. The station was built in 1903 and has two floors an attic and a basement. The station also houses two new displays, the paramedic and first-aid and toy fire truck displays. | Erik Anderson~For Sun-Times Media

Dale Betts volunteer who has worked Sunday's for past six months Fire Barn #5 Museum displays vintage fire fighter nozzle

Dale Betts, a volunteer who has worked on Sunday's for the past six months at the Fire Barn #5 Museum displays a vintage fire fighter nozzle while in the attic of the Fire Barn #5 Museum in Elgin on Sunday, February 24, 2013. | Erik Anderson~For Sun-Times Media

Dale Betts volunteer who has worked Sunday's for past six months Fire Barn #5 Museum displays glass full pieces grathhave

Dale Betts, a volunteer who has worked on Sunday's for the past six months at the Fire Barn #5 Museum displays a glass full of pieces of grain that have been collected throughout the museum in Elgin on Sunday, February 24, 2013. The pieces of grain are a piece of living history of the museum which would have been used for feeding the horses that were housed there. | Erik Anderson~For Sun-Times Media

Vice President Cathy Hemmings speaks about new paramedic first-aid pieces thare now housed collectiFire Barn #5 Museum ElgSunday February 24

Vice President Cathy Hemmings speaks about the new paramedic and first-aid pieces that are now housed in the collection at the Fire Barn #5 Museum in Elgin on Sunday, February 24, 2013. | Erik Anderson~For Sun-Times Media

Vice President Cathy Hemmings organizes new firetruck toy display pieces collectiFire Barn #5 Museum ElgSunday February 24 2013. | Erik

Vice President Cathy Hemmings organizes the new firetruck toy display pieces of the collection at the Fire Barn #5 Museum in Elgin on Sunday, February 24, 2013. | Erik Anderson~For Sun-Times Media

The Fire Barn #5 Museum located Elghouses many pieces vintage items Elgfire fighting force from 1800's through present time. Newly

The Fire Barn #5 Museum located in Elgin houses many pieces of vintage items of the Elgin fire fighting force from the 1800's through present time. Newly on display are the paramedic and first-aid pieces as long as a set of new toy fire trucks. | Erik Anderson~For Sun-Times Media

A display box sits full vintage paramedic first-aid pieces from 1970's 1980's Fire Barn #5 Museum ElgSunday February 24 2013.

A display box sits full of vintage paramedic and first-aid pieces from the 1970's and 1980's at the Fire Barn #5 Museum in Elgin on Sunday, February 24, 2013. The Fire Barn #5 Museum is open to the public on Saturday and Sunday's from noon-4 pm. | Erik Anderson~For Sun-Times Media

ELGIN — When Jim Carrigan taps his finger against the frame of a certain window in the Elgin Fire Barn No. 5 Museum, two dried-up grains of oats fall out of the crack behind the frame and land on the windowsill. Those grains represent a … Read More