During the first three weeks of March, Paul Darley, third-generation president, CEO and chairman of W.S. Darley & Co., kept a watchful eye on the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
The company, founded in 1908 and based in Itasca, Ill. (about 27 miles northwest of downtown Chicago), serves a market thatâs all about emergency preparedness. W.S. Darley manufactures fire engines, pumps and related equipment for first responders and distributes tactical equipment to the Department of Defense.