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Palos Heights FPD History

This from Mike Summa:

Palos Heights once ran this IHC/unknown Squad 6405 out of their station 1.  Enjoy and comment.

Mike Summa

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9 Comments

• #1 by Greg Michels on April 8, 2018 - 12:08 AM

  

  Great looking rig for the day!

• #2 by Stephen Casper on February 25, 2018 - 6:17 AM

  

  I worked for Evergreen Park. We had an IH high pressure rig on a 1 ton chassis . I believe it was a 1970. We built it in house. Our fire chief at the time was a journeyman welder. We also had a 1958 Pirsch Combination Rescue Squad , Pumper.

• #3 by LT501 on February 25, 2018 - 3:38 AM

  

  MABAS 21, you are right about Chicago Ridge and Worth having mini-pumpers, but I don’t believe they were in-service until the early 80’s. The Chevy squad I recall seeing in Chgo Ridge was an early 60’s model, and I don’t think it had a pump. Also I believe Evergreen Park was the first department in the area to have a mini-pumper, which was also their first yellow rig. I am guessing that was in the early 70’s, but maybe it was earlier then that.

• #4 by MABAS 21 on February 24, 2018 - 8:04 PM

  

  LT501, Burbank’s Squad 203 was initially on an International Loadstar chassis and was eventually remounted on a Mack R chassis. Justice also had a similar International Loadstar as Squad 555. Both Chicago Ridge 6523 and Worth 6708 had light rescue/mini pumpers mounted on a Chevrolet chassis

• #5 by LT501 on February 24, 2018 - 12:12 PM

  

  Palos, North Palos and Roberts Park all had similar rigs with NP eventually buying RP’s Squad since it had a booster tank and theirs did not. Burbank did have a similar squad but I think it had a Mack-B Cab. I believe Oak Lawn, Evergreen Park, and Chicago Ridge also had squads with similar rescue bodies, but with a different cab/chassis. Oak Lawn’s original Squad-1 (later Sqd-16) had a Dodge tilt cab, Evergreen had their yellow Pirch, and CR had a somewhat smaller Chevy rescue squad during this era.

• #6 by MABAS 21 on February 24, 2018 - 9:40 AM

  

  I believe that Burbank and North Palos both had similar units in that era.

• #7 by Stephen Casper on February 23, 2018 - 4:53 PM

  

  Do you have any more photos of the PHFPD ?

• #8 by Mike hellmuth on February 23, 2018 - 3:34 PM

  

  I believe that reading body works was the builder

• #9 by CrabbyMilton on February 23, 2018 - 3:03 PM

  

  That IH LOADSTAR was one tough truck and bus chassis and lasted from 1962 until 1978.
  Most school buses of that type were built on IH chassis.

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