of his employment for the District. Negligence was charged against each defendant. The jury returned a verdict in favor of Rainford and in favor of plaintiff against defendants Filliung and Lisle-Woodridge Fire Protection District in the amount of $169,097. Only the District has brought this appeal.
Briefly stated, the collision occurred at a "T" intersection of Maple Avenue and Elm Street in Lisle, Illinois. Defendant Filliung, a volunteer fireman for defendant Lisle-Woodridge Fire Protection District, was responding to a call for his services and pulled around the left side of plaintiff's vehicle, which was stopped at a stop sign on Elm Street facing north at its intersection with Maple Avenue, and into the path of the Rainford vehicle, which was proceeding eastbound on Maple Avenue. Rainford applied his brakes,to hold that "motorized fire fighting equipment" as used in the fire protection district statute is no less extensive than "motor vehicle" as used in the municipal fire department statute and that Filliung's privately owned vehicle, which he was driving in response to a fire call while operating the blue emergency light, was "motorized fire fighting equipment" within the meaning of the fire protection district statute.
We agree with the defendant District that the phrase "while engaged in the performance of his duties as a fireman" in the last sentence of the fire protection district statute is not limited, as the trial court held it to be, to include only those duties performed in connection with preventing or extinguishing fires. The reference to "such a fireman" in the last