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Melrose Park Fire Department history

for #throwbackthursday – classic apparatus and ambulance photos from the Melrose Park Fire Department

Larry Shapiro photo

 

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Tags: 3-boom Seagrave Snorkel, antique Cadillac ambulance, Cadillac ambulance, Grumman AerialCat tower ladder, Larry Shapiro, Mack CF fire engine, Melrose Park Fire Department history, throwbackthursday, vintage ambulance photos, vintage fire truck photos, vintage modular ambulance

This entry was posted on May 25, 2017, 3:30 PM and is filed under Fire Department History, Historic fire apparatus, throwbackthursday. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Comments

• #1 by Crabby Milton on May 25, 2017 - 5:32 PM

  

  Nice eye candy. Milwaukee had several MACK apparatus similar to 702.
  I like that SEAGRAVE the best.

• #2 by Mike L on May 25, 2017 - 4:49 PM

  

  Great pic of the 3 section “snorkel”, Larry! Melrose Park has always had some unique aerial apparatus between the Seagrave, the Grumman and now the Bronto. With the exception of Des Plaines having the 1986 Grumman “triplet” to Hillside and Bellwood, the old “Batallion” 7 (as it was known before they became MABAS Div 7 and then merged with Div 6 to become Div 20) that area had a cluster of 4 Grumman’s between Bellwood, Hillside, Broadview and Melrose Park. That uniqueness continues with Elmwood Park and Melrose Park having the only 2 Bronto’s in the region right next door to each other.

  Speaking of the Broadview ALF/Grumman, that has to be about the oldest frontline aerial in the Chicago metro area at 33 years old. Does anyone have one older?

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