New ladder truck for Central Stickney FPD

From the Central Stickney FPD Facebook page:

The fabrication of our new Truck has begun at Pierce.

Truck build week 2 update.

Truck Build Week 3 Update

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#1 by Matt on March 29, 2018 - 8:54 AM

I would throw in that Burbank, Chicago Ridge, Oak Lawn, North Palos and Roberts Park all have pre-piped waterways on their aerials and can provide elevated master streams at a fire. The Central Stickney truck was only 75′ partially due to the need to fit within the firehouse. In today’s environment of challenging finances and limited space, I think we will see less towers purchased.
#2 by Rusty on March 29, 2018 - 8:24 AM

Is this truck the Ascendant Tower? The funny looking phone truck looking one with the monitor under the basket?
#3 by MABAS21 on March 28, 2018 - 10:58 PM

Tom, Evergreen Park definitely ordered one and Bedford Park is either specing one if it isn’t ordered already.
#4 by Tom on March 28, 2018 - 10:18 PM

MABAS 21,

Bedford Park is getting a new snorkel?
#5 by LT501 on March 28, 2018 - 9:39 PM

Thanks MABAS 21. Just on FYI on Willow’s former tower, I saw it this past summer in Syracuse, Indiana at the Turkey Creek Fire Territory station. It still remains black with silver striping…only the name on the doors and ladder have been changed. The firefighter I spoke with said they are so pleased with it, they plan to order their next engine in “jet black” to match it. Syracuse is located about 25 miles SE of Elkhart.
#6 by MABAS21 on March 28, 2018 - 8:36 PM

LT501, yes Bedford Park will be the last remaining department in Division 21 with a Pierce Dash CF tower ladder. A Pierce Ascendant 107′ quint is currently being built for Central Stickney. Both Evergreen Park and Bedford Park have Rosenbauer snorkels on order.

Burbank had a 67 or 68 Sutphen aerial platform, which technically was the first department in Division 21, that was around until they purchased their current Spartan/Crimson 100′ RM. Then came Oak Lawn Truck 12, which was a 1975 Oshkosh/American tower that was sold by 1987. Central Stickney currently has a Simon Duplex/LTI 75′ tower. Chicago Ridge had an E-One 95′ tower, Bedford Park a Pierce Dash 100′ tower, Roberts Park a 102′ KME tower, North Palos a HME/3D/Nova Quintech Sky Arm, and Willow Springs an E-One 95′ tower.

So at one time our division had 7 operating tower ladders, along with trucks in Evergreen Park and former Justice along with the Bedford Park and Evergreen Park Snorkels.
#7 by LT501 on March 28, 2018 - 5:12 PM

By referring to this truck as a “new quint” is Central Stickney implying that it will not be a tower ladder? If so, that will leave Bedford Park having the only remaining tower ladder in Div.21, where at least 6 other dept’s once ran with towers (Oak Lawn, Chicago Ridge, North Palos, Roberts Park, Burbank and Willow Springs.)
Also, I read somewhere (maybe on this site) where we may have been misusing the term “tower ladder”. If the telescopic ladder has side rails and can be easily used to climb and descend while extended, then it technically is a “ladder tower”. Only departments such as FDNY where the ladder has no side rails and is only used for emergency escape from the basket/bucket, is the truck a true “tower ladder”. Is this correct ?