Another submission from Steve Redick:
This time we will have a suburban installment…This was a box or 2nd alarm in the old Battalion 7 (Now division 20) … Maywood or Bellwood … not sure which. Some action photos … maybe someone will recognize some of the members in the photos. I always enjoyed the rigs, and always liked the ALF water chiefs, but I think they had lots of problems with the waterways.
Also a coupla shots from a fire in Glenview … a vacant supermarket. The Snorkel is the Glenbrook Snorkel before the rebuild.
Both sets were taken in the 80’s …
Maywood firefighters in the 80’s work a house fire. Steve Redick photo
Maywood firefighters in the 80’s work a house fire. Steve Redick photo
Old modular ambulance from Maywood. Steve Redick photo
Hendrickson/E-ONE engine from Maywood. Steve Redick photo
Vintage fire photo of Glenbrook’s Snorkel working at the extra alarm fire. Steve Redick photo
Glenbrook FPD Pierce Arrow engine pumping during a fire at a vacant supermarket. Steve Redick photo
Broadview’s American LaFrance Water Chief Quint. Steve Redick photo
Another view of the Hendrickson/E-ONE engine from Maywood. Steve Redick photo
#1 by Scott on June 30, 2013 - 10:34 AM
The Maywood engine’s are old 506 & 507. 506 had the “888” on the outside while 507’s was flush mounted.
IF the pics of the engines & fire is the same incident, then Maywoods Fire. If not, probably a Bellwood fire cause of the Bellwood Truck being up and the Bellwood guys on SCBA at the window.
Guy on the ladder looks like recently retired Maywood Fire Chief John Cadigan.
#2 by Bob on June 29, 2013 - 6:36 PM
I remember that old Glenbrook engine. It was probably the loudest engine I’ve ever heard. You could hear it approaching a mile away, without the siren!