Firefighter Paramedic Aaron Rutter points out where repair work to the wall had to be made after replacing their old stove with a donated one at Palos Fire Protection District Station 1 in Palos Park, Illinois, Thursday, February, 2, 2012. The station is one of five finalists in the IKEA Firehouse Kitchen Remodeling Contest. The cabinet drawer on the countertop in the foreground broke Thursday morning. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Firefighter Paramedic Joe Lenzen tries to figure out how they are going to repair a cabinet drawer which broke this morning at Palos Fire Protection District Station 1 in Palos Park, Illinois, Thursday, February, 2, 2012. The station is one of five finalists in the IKEA Firehouse Kitchen Remodeling Contest. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Duct tape holds a cabinet together where a dilapidated sink and defective faucet has caused other damage at Palos Fire Protection District Station 1 in Palos Park, Illinois, Thursday, February, 2, 2012. The station is one of five finalists in the IKEA Firehouse Kitchen Remodeling Contest. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Firefighter Paramedic Aaron Rutter demonstrates how the faucet head no longer retracts at the sink where duct tape is holding the cabinet together at Palos Fire Protection District Station 1 in Palos Park, Illinois, Thursday, February, 2, 2012. The station is one of five finalists in the IKEA Firehouse Kitchen Remodeling Contest. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Firefighter Paramedic Jason Milakovich cleans a dish at the sink where the cabinet bases are falling apart at Palos Fire Protection District Station 1 in Palos Park, Illinois, Thursday, February, 2, 2012. The station is one of five finalists in the IKEA Firehouse Kitchen Remodeling Contest. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
A separation between the tiles on the floor shows where a cinder block half wall was removed to add space to the kitchen at Palos Fire Protection District Station 1 in Palos Park, Illinois, Thursday, February, 2, 2012. The station is one of five finalists in the IKEA Firehouse Kitchen Remodeling Contest. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Palos firehouse a finalist in kitchen makeover contest
Marianne DeHaan made a distress call to Ikea last month to rescue the kitchen at the Palos Park firehouse where she’s worked for 10 years. “The kitchen is currently on advanced life support and the firefighters/paramedics are performing CPR (Cabinet Partial Removal) when necessary,” DeHaan … Read More