This from Steve Redick:
Took in a box alarm at 915 S La Grange Road in La Grange on Friday (11/17/17). I was fairly close but there was nothing to see when I arrived. I got a few rig shots though.Steve
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
#1 by Scott on November 20, 2017 - 5:11 PM
Bill you meant the Metz aerial for Hinsdale as well as Countryside? Is the raptor the model? As Lenny said 1111 is a Ferrara and is the rescue pumper.
Hinsdale was years after Countryside got their Metz.
LaGrange 1211 is NOT a Ferrara, it is an HME/SMEAL.
#2 by Lenny on November 20, 2017 - 3:19 PM
1111 and 1211 are both Ferrara
#3 by Brian on November 20, 2017 - 1:59 PM
Hinsdale had this aerial before Countryside and the LaGrange 1111 is a Ferrara
#4 by Michael m on November 20, 2017 - 4:30 AM
Western springs engine and the Brookfield engine look nice
#5 by Bill Post on November 19, 2017 - 12:53 PM
Everyone of those shots of the apparatus really stands out. La Grange Engine 1111 is really impressive, it almost looks like a Pierce PUC. This cab though is not a Pierce. It looks like the rig may be a pumper/squad. Skokie and Niles have relatively new PUC engines however they are not squads but because the bodies are built like boxes they resemble squads.
That Raptor aerial from Hinsdale is only the second one that I know of in the Chicago area. The Countryside FPD in Lake County also has one.
#6 by Crabby Milton on November 19, 2017 - 12:36 PM
1211 looks good.
#7 by Sebastian on November 19, 2017 - 12:23 PM
Why was brookfields engine all taped up??