Combined Agency Response Team
What is Cart?
The Combined Agency Response Team is an Illinois based division of specialized rescue. The team itself is composed of 8 different teams. Members come from area fire departments in their respective divisions. CART specializes in confined space and tactical rescue. CART responds to rescue incidents with a multi-million dollar cache of member owned and CART supplemented equipment to support the efforts of the technical rescuers. There are over 400 Rescue Technicians that are annually tested by the CART organization.
CART serves 8 northeastern counties of Illinois, including Cook, Will, Grundy,
Kendall, Kankakee, Dupage, Kane, and Dekalb totalling a response area of over 1000 square miles.
Our Mission...
CART exists to provide adequately trained responders to specialized rescue incidents in a quick and efficient manner. We serve to obtain, maintain, and utilize equipment to fulfill our responsibility to our response areas.