New mini-pumper for the Fox River and Countryside Fire Rescue District (more)

This from Larry Shapiro:

Some photos of Fox River Countryside Squad 1834

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

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10 Comments

#1 by Austin on November 29, 2021 - 4:29 PM

Harry, very doubtful. The department is 11 years old, and I don’t think they kept any piece of apparatus more than 5 years. They sell stuff off long before it should be. Maybe a new chief can make a difference.
#2 by Pat on November 29, 2021 - 8:10 AM

Yeah no point in using a siren in a parking lot pretty much and blasting those homes.
#3 by crabbymilton on November 29, 2021 - 6:14 AM

Why turn the siren on if there’s no traffic in front of the station or even on the street that they are about to join.
Good point about the air horns.
#4 by E. C. Darroll on November 28, 2021 - 6:39 PM

Michael M., what’s interesting about that? Honest question?
#5 by Tim on November 28, 2021 - 3:59 PM

Not a bad looking rig. The air horns will get torn off at some point in a snow bank. How close to max GVW is this rig? It’s very easy and very common to overload mini pumpers. I would have gone with a smaller capacity pump just to cut weight.
#6 by Michael m on November 28, 2021 - 3:42 PM

Interesting how they waited until they got to the street before they turned on the siren.
#7 by Michael m on November 28, 2021 - 3:40 PM

How many rigs are at their Station 1? It looks like they have the ambulance parked in a strange way. There are 5 bays. The bays we can see are the squad and the engine. The tanker I believe is on the other side of the engine. I think the BC is in the first bay on the other side of the squad.
#8 by harry on November 28, 2021 - 2:22 PM

yes correct lets hope they keep it for at least 10 years
#9 by Mike hellmuth on November 28, 2021 - 1:17 PM

Also this unit has the federal rumbler siren it sounds good……….
#10 by Mike hellmuth on November 28, 2021 - 1:12 PM

The mini pumper is making a comeback! It makes more sense to run a piece
of apparatus like this for C02 runs etc than running a $600.000 plus engine
on these types of calls…….