This from Steve Redick:
Here are a few news clippings from a spectacular job, 5-11 Alarm Harrison & Throop in 1967. Also, some video and radio traffic found on ChicagoFD.org. Jim Evans, my old boss, was the radio operator at Main that day.
News clipping from a spectacular 5-11 Alarm fire in Chicago at Harrison & Throop in 1967. Warren Redick collection
News clipping from a spectacular 5-11 Alarm fire in Chicago at Harrison & Throop in 1967. Warren Redick collection
News clipping from a spectacular 5-11 Alarm fire in Chicago at Harrison & Throop in 1967. Warren Redick collection
News clipping from a spectacular 5-11 Alarm fire in Chicago at Harrison & Throop in 1967. Warren Redick collection
News clipping from a spectacular 5-11 Alarm fire in Chicago at Harrison & Throop in 1967. Warren Redick collection
#1 by David on January 27, 2016 - 5:18 AM
Bill thanks for the reply, thought about that as well, who knows but sure it looks pretty unusual, have seen the IHC pressure wagon with the paint burnt off the back of the hose bed in some other 60s video, looks like at those times this happened quite often as there were far more big fires than today.
#2 by Bill Post on January 26, 2016 - 8:32 PM
David Snorkel 5’s cab looks to me like it might have been singed at an extra alarm fire. I have seen photos of other singed fire apparatus and they tend to blacken where the red paint had been.
#3 by David on January 26, 2016 - 4:05 AM
Also not sure if anybody noted that but there’s a shot of Snkl. 5’s Ford arriving at the scene a few seconds after the beginning and as it looks the rig has the whole side of the cab and bonnet painted black. Never seen that anywhere else than in this vid. Really unusual paint job.
#4 by Bill Post on January 25, 2016 - 9:23 PM
An interesting fact about this fire is that Engine 103’s quarters was only a block west of the fire at the time of the fire. They were located at 1459 W Harrison street. Engine 103’s current house at 25 S Loomis was actually Truck 39’s station. At the time of the fire Truck 39 was using one of the two Mack Magirus 144 foot Aerial Ladders that had been put in service in 1960. The other one was located at Truck 3’s house which was located at 158 W Erie street. There were quite a few single Truck stations still in service at the time. Engine 103 wasn’t moved to it’s current quarters until June 6th 1969 when Truck 39 was taken out of service for almost 5 years when they were put back in service on April 1 1974 at Engine 123’s new house.
Snorkel 4 was also located less then a mile away at Engine 25’s house (the current Survive Alive building at the Fire Academy. Major fires that were near fire stations were not that uncommon either.
#5 by Wally T on January 25, 2016 - 1:45 PM
I remember that one as that was the year my first son was born. Also, the year of that massive 2 foot snowfall.