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Glen Ellyn Fire Department history (more)

This from Mike Summa for #TBT:

For TBT-This was the Glen Ellyn Fire Dept.’s Hook & Ladder #8, a 1948 Pirsch Quad/Eng.  Comment and Enjoy

Mike Summa

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2 Comments

• #1 by Mike hellmuth on June 30, 2023 - 9:39 AM

  

  The talk of musters brings back great memories one of my good friends Jerry Ebeling bought a1950 Autocar high pressure fog unit from the Merion Fire Co from Ardmore Pa we made almost all the Chicago and southern Wisconsin musters open cab roto ray light nice rig Jerry was a on Elmhurst for many years finally retiring. The truck eventually went to the hall of fame in
  Arizona where I believe is still there today.

• #2 by crabbymilton on June 29, 2023 - 11:53 AM

  

  Certainly a worthy feature for TBT. It’s sad that musters are becoming part of TBT. I don’t have children or grandchildren but I could imagine…”Grandpa/Dad, tell me about fire apparatus musters and…”

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