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Oak Brook Fire Department history

This from Mike Summa for #TBT:

For TBT- Oak Brook Fire Dept. #916.  Photo taken at a fire muster in Downers Grove in the early 1990’s.  And that is all I know.  If anyone can fill in the blanks, please do so.

Mike Summa

Mike Summa photo

And from our archives

Custom Pirsch engine with 50′ Boardman Readi-Tower aerial. Larry Shapiro photo

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2 Comments

• #1 by Mike L on March 25, 2021 - 11:04 AM

  

  Crabby, I believe you are correct. This was a Duplex/Pirsch with a 50′ tele-squrt. Not sure if it was an 84 or 85. I remember seeing it early in my career up that way.

• #2 by crabbymilton on March 25, 2021 - 7:37 AM

  

  Looks to be built on a DUPLEX chassis. This was when PIRSCH was in it’s final years.

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