This from Steve Redick:
I imagine that the rescue was from the early 60’s and it is interesting to see the old wooden aerial working next to what was a modern Snorkel
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This from Steve Redick:
A classic column by Paul Ditzel in the December 1968 issue of Fire Engineering Magazine
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Here is a link to the website of Old Custom Cruisers, a car club in Bristol, Tennessee which owns two Ahrens-Fox pumpers; one from Chicago and one from Maywood, Illinois.
This 750-GPM Ahrens Fox pumper (piston), Model: IM-2 was built for Chicago Fire Department 7 and was stationed in the Stockyard area of Chicago. It was manufactured in 1921 and delivered in 1922.
Hours on Pumper: 750 gal @ 120 lbs for 6 hrs, 375 gal @ 200 lbs for 4 hrs, 250 gal @ 250 lbs for 2 hrs
Engine Details: 6 cylinder engine, 2 plugs per cylinder, duel ignition system, magneto & distributor, 3 speed manual transmission, gas, up draft carburetor, mechanical brakes, spring suspension.
The “Ball”, or the pulsation chamber, reduces the throbbing of the stream as it ejects from the nozzle. The tall chamber on the front retained the vacuum on the intake side of the pump. With minor variation, the style of this pump did not change from 1915 to 1952.
Old Custom Cruisers photo
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Old Custom Cruisers photo
thanks Dennis
This from Steve Redick:
Chicago Magazine October 1989 – Crisis Cowboys … a classic
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This from Steve Redick:
My dad is mentioned as the driver of SS1 in this article
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This from Steve Redick:
Chicago Magazine, October 1975. A very inflammatory article on Commissioner Quinn and the CFD.
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This from Steve Redick:
Here is some great history from October 10, 1980. I was 3 months on the job in the fao and fielded both original calls for Cermak and Hubbard St fires. We also sent a response to a big job in Cicero in the middle of all this. I sure remember Kenny pulling the box that night. This was a typical crazy night in the good ol‘ FAO.
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Here’s another extra alarm list from December 1980. Some great locations. Also interesting to see the info on the ill-fated CAD Center.
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This from Danny Nelms:
Keith Hanley shared this on FB from a December 1977 issue of Fire Service Digest that was written by Kenneth S. Wyse
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This from Steve Redick:
Once again Steve Little has opened his archive with this recording of traffic from a 3 day period between October 20-22, 1976. Some great stuff.
