This from Steve Redick:
February 23, 1964. A great article with some very famous names. It may be hard to read but if you enlarge each page you should be able to read all of it. Classic Chicago Fire Department …Louis Galante and my dad were very close in those years. They taught classes together and many a time I would come home from school and they would be “pulling ceiling” in our bar downstairs. That was a great time to be in and around the CFD. This was too good not to shareSteve
#1 by Bill Post on February 17, 2019 - 10:59 AM
Mike M. There was a typo in my previous post. The chassis of the original Snorkel Squad 1 was a 1956 IHC.
#2 by Bill Post on February 16, 2019 - 11:30 PM
Michael M, they were riding on the running board of the original Snorkel Squad 1. It was on a 1965 International Harvester chassis, formerly from a high pressure wagon. It was retrofitted with an Erhlinder squad body and a 40-foot Strato Tower Snorkel some time late 1961 or early 1962 and was put in service as Snorkel Squad 1 October 1st 1962. There was a second former high pressure wagon that was retrofitted the same way and put in service as Snorkel Squad 2 about a year later. Those two rigs were the only Snorkels that had rear running boards. The Snorkel squads normally ran with 7 to 10 men; four would ride on the Snorkel with two in the cab and two on the running board. Another three would ride on the fog pressure unit, the second piece of the company; SS1A, 2A, or 3A.
Snorkel Squad 3 used the original Snorkel 1 so they didn’t have the same type of rear body.
#3 by Michael m on February 16, 2019 - 5:34 PM
Which one of the snorkels are the firefighters riding on the back of?
#4 by David on February 15, 2019 - 6:33 AM
Steve, thanks for sharing this, have to save these, great stuff.