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Buffalo Grove Fire Department history

This from Larry Shapiro for #TBT:

• Buffalo Grove FD Truck 5 – 1969 IHC / Howe / Grove 1250/200 85′ mid-mount quint
• Buffalo Grove FD Engine 3 – 1969 IHC / Howe top-mount pumper
• Buffalo Grove FD Engine 5 – 1969 IHC / Howe top-mount pumper

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

 

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This entry was posted on April 24, 2025, 8:00 AM and is filed under Fire Department History, Fire Truck photos, Historic fire apparatus, throwbackthursday. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Comments

• #1 by Mike on April 24, 2025 - 9:45 AM

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  That explains the current graphics package. Looks like they went back to that style, which is nice and old school for them.

• #2 by crabbymilton on April 24, 2025 - 9:08 AM

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  Nice. These have an east coast feel to them. There used to be perhaps still a bunch of those old HOWE pics. on the MASSFIRETRUCKS site.
  https://massfiretrucks.com/
  All kinds of apparatus eye candy on there.

• #3 by Michael m on April 24, 2025 - 8:15 AM

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  How long did BG have these rigs? Did they have them until the mid 1980’s?