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Chicago Fire Department history

From Steve Redick:

I came into something really special. These photos are dated April 19, 1961 near the old fire academy. They are testing the feasibility of putting a second turret on the Snorkel basket, and it’s my dad in the basket! (wearing glasses) He was assigned to Snorkel 2 at the time and I remember him talking about how the 2-gun Snorkel (snorkel 5) never really worked well as they could not properly supply both turrets. Dad was only 33 years old at the time of the photo. Many thanks to my friend who found these photos.
Vintage photo from April 19, 1961 of Chicago FD Sni=orkel 2 testing a second gun in the basket
 
Vintage photo from April 19, 1961 of Chicago FD Sni=orkel 2 testing a second gun in the basket
 
Vintage photo from April 19, 1961 of Chicago FD Sni=orkel 2 testing a second gun in the basket

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Chicago Fire Department history

This from Steve Redick:

My dad is mentioned as the driver of SS1 in this article

vintage news clipping about Chicago FD SS1

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Chicago Fire Department history

From Steve Redick for #TBT:

Chicago FD Engine 52 (taken in 1958)

FWD fire engine in Chicago 1958

Warren Redick photo

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Chicago Fire Department history, 5-11 Alarm fire at O’Hare Field March 9, 1963

This from Steve Redick:

I found the news clippings to go with my dad’s spectacular photos of this little known or remembered fire.
Lots of cool details if you really look at the color images.
Steve
vintage 5-11 Alarm fire at O'Hare Field in Chicago 3/9/63

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vintage 5-11 Alarm fire at O'Hare Field in Chicago 3/9/63

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vintage 5-11 Alarm fire at O'Hare Field in Chicago 3/9/63

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NCO Club burns at O'Hare 3/9/63

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NCO Club burns at O'Hare 3/9/63

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NCO Club burns at O'Hare 3/9/63

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Chicago Fire Department history (more)

Photos taken by Warren Redick that were housed at Engine 53’s house in the Stockyards.

vintage Chicago FD IHC hi-pressure wagon

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vintage Chicago FD Mack L-Model pumper Engine 53

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Historic 3-11 Alarm fire in Chicago, 2-25-79

This from Steve Redick:

This is the radio traffic from a 3-11 alarm with a disaster plan 3 at the notorious 6531 Lowe. This occurred while my dad was chief in the 12th battalion … first thing in the morning. The chief he normally relieved, Bill Foran was acting in the big buggy and had not yet been relieved so he was responding as the division marshal. The captain of truck 20, who had some classic radio replies was Richard Fitzpatrick. The voice of the englewood office was Harry Haddon back in his heyday. This building had super long hallways, masks were barely in use at this time and the people were hanging out all over the place. This was a real dandy.

historic Chicago fire scene photo

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historic Chicago fire scene photo

Standing in the window are Bill Conroy Lt Eng 84 and Dave Bukiema Lt t51. Steve Redick photo

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Historic fire service video The Noble Breed

This from Steve Redick:

I dipped into my vault for a friend and I came up with a great piece of firefighting history. I imagine many of you may have never heard of the documentary The Noble Breed. It was produced by the Kemper Insurance Company in the late 1960’s. They spent quite a bit of time riding with SS3 with some footage of my dad, Warren Redick and a young Bill O’Boyle. They also spent time in Skokie and have some footage of the well known George Trier. My grandfather, not shown in the film was chief in Skokie at that time. They also spent time with other FD’s including LA and San Francisco as well as some volunteers. For it’s time this was probably one of the best FD documentaries ever produced. It was narrated by Rod Serling, a classic voice of the time. Due to size limitations it is in 2 parts.. take a look. Be sure to expand the viewing window to a larger size.

The videos can be viewed HERE:

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Vintage 4-11 Alarm Chicago fire scene, 4-14-70

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4-11 alarm fire in Chicago 4-14-70

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4-11 alarm fire in Chicago 4-14-70

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4-11 alarm fire in Chicago 4-14-70

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Vintage 4-11 Alarm fire in Chicago, 1-4-71

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January 4, 1971 4-11 4545 Woodlawn

News clipping from a historic Chicago fire at the Pierre hotel

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News clipping from a historic Chicago fire at the Pierre hotel

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News clipping from a historic Chicago fire at the Pierre hotel

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Four historic extra alarm fires ravage Chicago from 11/12/64 – 11/14/64

This from Steve Redick:

November 1964 had a 3 day period that was one of the busiest ever in the recent history of the city of Chicago. It was the subject of a TV news special. view it here

I have some news clippings of two of the massive fires.

  • The Goldblatts warehouse (5-11 and 7 Specials)  4000 S Kedzie
  • The 5-11 at 18th & Clark
  • The 5-11 2455 S. Michigan Avenue

Steve

News clipping from a historic Chicago fire

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News clipping from a historic Chicago fire at a vacate Goldblatts warehouse

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News clipping from a historic Chicago fire at a vacate Goldblatts warehouse

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News clipping from a historic Chicago fire

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News clipping from an historic fire that destroyed mcCormick Place in Chicago on February 13, 1971

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News cliNews clipping from a historic Chicago firepping from an historic fire that destroyed mcCormick Place in Chicago on February 13, 1971

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News clipping from a historic Chicago fire

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News clipping from a historic Chicago fire

Warren Redick collection

News clipping from a historic Chicago fire

Warren Redick collection

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