This from Steve Redick:
Found a few more images from the fire in Cicero…location is arount 28/Cicero…anyone have an exact date??
Jul 22
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This from Steve Redick:
Found a few more images from the fire in Cicero…location is arount 28/Cicero…anyone have an exact date??
Tags: American LaFrance 700 Series TDA, Cicero Fire Department, Cicero Fire Department history, classic fire photos, historic fire in Cicero, historic fire photos, night fire scene with fire trucks, Seagrave Anniversary Series Engine, Steve Redick, Stickney Fire Department history, Summit Fire Department history, white fire engine
Jul 18
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Another installment from Steve Redick:
… some photos from Cicero back in the 80s …
- I remember this was 2 or 3 frames … the white Grove aerial was one of two white rigs they had as I recall … another was a Ford COE engine …
Who can name this firehouse? … hint … not Chicago
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Jul 15
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This from Steve Redick:
I was doing some scanning from the “wayback” files and found a few you might like to see…The first was a huge pile of RR ties in Bensenville that burned for hours and hours..early 80s. Got some rig shots including the old Bensenville International Squad rig..I remember at this fire the oxygen levels near it got low and one fireman started acting very erratically til they got him into better atmosphere..very strange but no one thought of using masks at an outside fire back then.
I got a lot of interest in the Elk Grove tiller shot too…..
Found a coupla shots of some Mt Prospect rigs, and the Wood Dale truck
Also a fire in a trailer in Morton Grove at the old OCC site (Oakton Community College)
All these should be from the early 80s and shot on Kodacolor negative film…
Steve
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Apr 29
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The final installment from Jack Connors of the Chicago FD turret wagon history. Images in this article feature 6-7-3, Big John at various locations in the city; a display, a parade, and at two fire scenes.
In this photo at Engine 42’s house on Illinois, Big John sits with engine 42 and Truck 3, both built by American LaFrance. This and only one other house in Chicago matched an American LaFrance engine and truck together. The other pair was Engine 112 with Truck 21.
On July 7, 1970, a 5-11 Alarm fire at 1750 N. Ashland Avenue resulted in the death of CFD Firefighter John Walsh when a wall fell onto a Snorkel. These next two images show Big John (6-7-3) deployed at that fire.
From the Chicago Park District website:
Walsh Park occupies the former site of a vacant building destroyed in a spectacular and deadly fire on July 7, 1970. Firefighter John P. Walsh, Jr. (1923-1970), for whom this West Town park is named, died five weeks after being critically injured while fighting the stubborn blaze. Walsh had served as a United States Marine before joining the Chicago Fire Department in 1951. He had been assigned to Hook & Ladder Company 44. Several months after Walsh’s death, the Dana Civic Organization requested that the Chicago Park District develop the fire-scarred site as a neighborhood park. The park district had acquired the 2-acre property by the end of 1972, with the help of grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Improvements began the following year. The 2-acre park includes playground equipment, an athletic field, basketball hoops, and a sand box.
From the Illinois Fire Service Institute:
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The beginning of this series can be found HERE.
Previous articles on Big John are HERE and HERE.
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Apr 21
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Another installment on the history of turret wagons in the Chicago Fire Department from Jack Connors. Images depict Big Mo as it was on two different chassis. It was assigned as 6-7-2 originally on a 1953 International 6×6 chassis which was painted black over red. This unit carried shop #G-248. It was later remounted onto 1957 GMC 6×6 chassis in the blue and white colors of the Civil Defense carrying shop #G-157 .
Images from Jack’s collection are featured from Ken Little and George Brown in addition to Jack’s own photos.
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Apr 11
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Tim Olk’s book entitled Northern Illinois Fire Ground Photography is almost here!
Download the flyer.
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Mar 27
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Images from Steve Redick from the Goldblatt’s Department Store fire in the winter of 1977.
Tags: 75? Snorkel, Aero Chief, American LaFrance 900 Series Aero Chief 90, American LaFrance Aero Chief Snorkel, big fire in bitter cold weather, department store fire, fire trucks at fire scene, firefighters working at fire scene, Ford/Pierce/Snorkel, Glenbrook Fire Department, Glenbrook Fire Protection District, Goldblatts fire in 1977, historic fire photos, large winter fire, Mount Prospect FIre Department, photos of fire fighters working, photos of fire trucks at fire scene, Randhurst shopping center fire, Snorkel fire apparatus, Snorkel fire truck at big fire, Steve Redick
Mar 26
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We have more history to share on the Chicago Fire Department Turret Wagons. Images come from Jack Connors and his collection featuring units built on the Willy’s Jeep chassis.
The previous installment in this series can be found HERE.
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Mar 22
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Images from Larry Shapiro on one extremely cold Sunday in February of 1977 at the 4th Alarm Goldblatt’s fire in Mount Prospect.
Tags: 75' Snorkel, Aero Chief, American LaFrance 900 Series Aero Chief 90, American LaFrance Aero Chief Snorkel, big fire in bitter cold weather, department store fire, fire trucks at fire scene, firefighters working at fire scene, Ford/Pierce/Snorkel, Glenbrook Fire Department, Glenbrook Fire Protection District, Goldblatts fire in 1977, historic fire photos, large winter fire, Larry Shapiro, Mount Prospect FIre Department, photos of fire fighters working, photos of fire trucks at fire scene, Randhurst shopping center fire, Snorkel fire apparatus, Snorkel fire truck at big fire
Mar 21
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This from Drew Smith:
These are from the Goldblatt’s fire at Central and Rand Roads in Mount Prospect on Sunday, February 6, 1977 ( think I said it was 1976 in the earlier comment) and shows both Glenbrook’s and MP’s Snorkels in operation. The GB Snorkel is before they sent it to Pierce for the new cab and chassis with it’s yellow paint.
Thought I had a picture of Rolling Meadow’s Snorkel at the race track but can’t find it.
Just came across this page which shows a ¾ shot of RM and Libertyville snorkels. http://yngfire.com/index.php?topic=2952.0
Drew Smith
Deputy Chief
Prospect Heights Fire Protection District
Larry Shapiro submitted images of the Snorkel units mentioned.
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