New Network TV Show Chicago Fire – update

One of our readers found a link to an NBC article on the filming of Chicago Fire that includes a gallery of images from the Columbus Avenue scene this week. Looking at the photos will answer several reader questions that have been posed about the apparatus being used as Squad 3 with an unconventional … unique color scheme. Also there is a large blue stripe that has been added to the ambulance.

Tim Olk submitted images of the three suppression rigs being used for the show. Squad 3 is obviously the spare haz mat (G-492, 1989 Spartan Gladiator/Saulsbury) but the shop numbers have been removed from the engine (1995 Spartan/Luverne) and the truck 1995 or 1996 Seagrave). The Ambulance carries shop #C055 which is a 200 Ford/MedicMaster (American LaFrance) that had been assigned to Ambulance 47.

The CFD spare haz mat unit has acquired a unique paint scheme for inclusion in the TV show Chicago Fire. Shop # G-492, a 1989 Spartan/Saulsbury. Tim Olk photo

Chicago Fire Department Haz Mat Unit 511 5-1-1

When Chicago received the Haz Mat unit in 1989, this is what it looked like. Larry Shapiro photo

Engine 51 on the tv show is using this 1995 Spartan/Luverne. Tim Olk photo

Truck 81 for the tv show is using this 1995 or 1996 Seagrave aerial. Tim Olk photo

Check it out the NBC5 article HERE.

Thanks Danny

Filming a new TV show Chicago Fire in Chicago

This image of the filming that happened on Wednesday shows that the ambulance being used is shop #C055. This is a 2004 Ford/MedicMaster that was previously assigned to Ambulance 47. Tim Olk photo

A view of the filming on Columbus Drive showing the very unique Chicago Squad 3. NBC5 photo

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#1 by Mike on March 16, 2015 - 6:09 AM

Engine 70’s old house. The house of cancer. Look up the history.

#2 by Mike L on March 15, 2015 - 10:47 PM

It is Eng 70’s former quarters. E70, BN 9 & Amb 13 ran from here until the new house at Clark & Peterson opened w/ E70,59 T47 Amb 13 & BN 9 a few years ago. 1545 W Rosemont is the address of this house in the commercial.

#3 by Richard Y on March 15, 2015 - 10:01 PM