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New engines for Chicago (more)

Updated photos from the E-ONE website showing production of the new engines for Chicago

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• #1 by Dennis on May 10, 2016 - 6:48 PM

  

  Engine 50 was assigned a 2002 Spartan/Luverne X-Engine 82 this past month.

• #2 by Bill Post on May 9, 2016 - 9:13 PM

  

  The latest news on the Squads were from April 11th and the photos were from the Rosenbauer facebook site.

• #3 by Mike C on May 9, 2016 - 8:17 PM

  

  Looks like LED headlights! Nice!

  Haven’t seen any update on the new squads lately. Any update?

• #4 by Chuck on May 9, 2016 - 6:29 PM

  

  There is ZERO chance of 94 getting one. It won’t fit.

• #5 by Bill Post on May 9, 2016 - 4:58 PM

  

  Thanks for the information Drew. It’s good to hear that they gave Engine 50 a newer rig.Their current hand me down was originally assigned to Engine 82 however they were using that rig as a spare for several years. It made alot more sense to reassign that rig to Engine 50 then to use it as a spare rig.

• #6 by Drew on May 9, 2016 - 3:01 PM

  

  Engine 50 has been assigned D598 which is an 01 or 02 Spartan Gladiator/Luverne. The 95 Spartan (D550, x-E89) has not been in service for many months now.

• #7 by Bill Post on May 9, 2016 - 2:32 PM

  

  Even though you really won’t know where the new units are going until they are assigned, ultimately the engines that will be replaced or taken out of frontline service will be Engine 50’s 1995 Spartan/Luverne which is the oldest assigned engine in service and two of the five 1997 HME/Luverne units which are at Engines 94, 28, 104, 80, and 121.
  I’m not saying that any of those companies will be getting the new E-One engines as there is a good chance that they will be getting hand-me-down units since the CFD often assigns new rigs to the busier companies (such as the busier ALS engines) and then reassigns those rigs to slower companies. If you notice the five engines that are using the 1997 HMEs are all relatively slow companies and several of them are using hand-me-downs. Engine 50’s 1995 Spartan Luverne was originally assigned to Engine 89 (another slow company).
  As far as the city’s plans for purchasing new apparatus goes, on April 22 the latest purchasing plan was released and they currently anticipate submitting a request for bids for a fire apparatus contract during the 3rd quarter of 2016 that would be worth between $10,000,001.00 and $20,000,000.00 with a 5-year contract. As a warning the city has a habit of deferring their anticipated request for bids by months or even years.
  This same anticipated request for fire apparatus bids has been deferred for at least a year as it has been published in several of Chicago’s quarterly purchasing plans. The only change is that in the previous purchasing plans the type of fire apparatus was specifically mentioned to be 100-foot aerial ladders, tower ladders, and triple combination pumpers. This buying plan doesn’t specify the type of apparatus, but I think that this was done to save printing the three separate types of fire apparatus.

  The city will also be putting out a request for bids through the Department of Aviation for expanding ARFF station 1 and relocating ARFF station 2 at O’Hare Airport.
  I had already heard that Chicago would be relocating Rescue 2 due to a new runway, however I was not aware the city would be expanding Rescue 1, as anyone who is familiar with that station knows it is already the largest fire station at O’Hare. For those who are unfamiliar, Rescue 1 is on the south end of the field off of Irving Park Road in the cargo area. That is the quarters of new the Engine 12, Tower Ladder 63, Ambulance 26, and ARFF units 653, 657, 658, and 6510 plus Haz Mat 512 and probably more units as well.

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