A historical review …

From Steve Redick:

I cranked up the wayback machine for a long overdue session….Here’s a shot I believe I may have gotten from Chuck Madderom. A very rare image of the famous Snorkel Squad 3 operating with a Snorkel. I have no info on this location or date, but I LOVE this shot. This is the same rig, the original Snorkel, that was restored by ALF back in the 90’s. As many of you already know my dad was the captain of this company, and I did ride on one of the foam pressures a coupla times when I lived on Erie Street. That house is now gone too.

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Here’s a good old fire fan photo. A still alarm 59th & Lafayette or Lasalle maybe even Perry … not sure now … mid 70’s … fire venting out the side and a truckman holding the door shut after forcing it while the engine leads out. My dad is visible in the white helmet on the right side of the photo. I rode in the 12th battalion buggy to this job. Typical fire in the old 12th battalion in those days.

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Don’t remember the date for this next one, but I was coming home from some tavern and took this in. Probably about 0300 or so, I’m thinking the late 80s. This was a pretty well known restaurant if I remember right..can anyone add more info?

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Let’s look at one more. Detroit lost 3 members in a major warehouse fire back in March 1987. This cartoon appeared in the paper the next day. I thought so much of it I bought a lithograph of it from the paper. This has always been a touching image for me.

Steve

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#1 by Bill Post on September 28, 2014 - 12:42 AM

Great shot’s Steve. It is interesting to the see the Original Snorkel in the Snorkel Squad 3 configuration after the awning was taken off of the roof. It’s too bad that the rig didn’t remain in service much longer, in fact it only ran on SS 3 for less then 2 years before they were permanently taken out of service. And that’s when they were still at 2858 W Fillmore.

#2 by Richard Gray on September 25, 2014 - 7:47 PM

Steve the 31st & Oak Park fire looks like the Capri Restaurant fire. It was actually in the mid 90’s. I drove Stickney’s snorkel 1204 there. It was the snorkels last fire. Stickney took possession of its new truck the next day.