Archive for May 13th, 2012

Storage yard fire for Central Stickney 5-10-12 (update)

More images were submitted from the huge storage yard fire that Central Stickney had on Thursday.

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Central Stickney tower sits near the Forest View engine as heavy smoke is generated from the debris that is burning.

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The deck gun from Summit Engine 952 is directed at a section of the burning debris.

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Several engines work with deck guns as the fire is spread over a large area.

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The deck gun from the Forest View engine goes to work.

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Another shot of Forest View Engine 813 working.

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A monitor nozzle is used on a section that has been largely knocked down.

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Central Stickney Engine 907 was also flowing a deck gun.

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Vintage Pirsch ad with CFD

In this reprint from a September, 1953 issue of Fire Engineering Magazine, the Peter Pirsch & Sons Co. of Kenosha, WI highlights 50 years of building fire engines for the Chicago Fire Department. The ad states that they started with 27 Pirsch Horse Drawn Wagons built in 1907, then there were 3 Pirsch equipped motorized chemical and hose cars in 1912 (the first motorized apparatus in Chicago), followed by 2 Pirsch equipped 600-gallon pumpers in 1916, and then 15 Pirsch 1,000-GPM 2-door cab pumpers built in 1953.

Peter Pirsch & Sons Co ad from 1953 Fire Engineering Magazine

Bill Friedrich collection

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