New aerial for the Cicero FD (more)

From Legacy Fire Apparatus Midwest on Facebook:

Up in the clouds … A day showing off Sutphen trucks is a lot of fun. Cicero’s (IL) new Sutphen SL100 aerial quint ladder is finishing its demo cycle before making its way home to the town. Just a great day playing with fire trucks.

#chicagoareafire.com; Firetruck; #Sutphen; #CiceroFD;

Legacy Fire photo

thanks Danny

Tags: chicagoareafire.com, Cicero FD orders engine and ladder from Sutphen, Cicero Fire Department, Sutphen mid-mount aerial ladder

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7 Comments

#1 by Evan Davis on July 31, 2025 - 12:26 PM

Thanks, Josh!
#2 by Branden Phillips on July 31, 2025 - 7:55 AM

I thought I saw in an earlier post that Cicero was getting a Seagrave tiller to replace the E-one? If so what is the progress on the tiller. If I remember correctly they went with Seagrave do to length limitations in their station.
#3 by Josh on July 31, 2025 - 7:32 AM

The (3) Sutphen Engines and this Sutphen truck are all demos. They were not spec’d by CFD, so the colors of the apparatus are just as they came from the factory. This truck along with the one engine, were an emergency purchase.

Cicero purchased an E-One Tower Ladder in 2006, which was also a demo, and that had a small portion of the roof painted white. When they spec’d the Tiller, they painted it to match Tower Ladder 1 at the time. But as history serves, Cicero has traditionally been white over red.
#4 by Andy Munzing on July 30, 2025 - 1:25 PM

In the 70’s and 80’s Cicero experimented with white apparats. Truck 1 was an American/Grove and Engine 3 was also white, do not remember the specs/maker.
#5 by Evan Davis on July 30, 2025 - 11:25 AM

Very nice! Congrats to Cicero! Is there a history or story why Cicero’s engines and trucks alternate between white over red and all red cabs? The E-One engines and various reserve engines they had were white over red with the E-One tiller and tower ladder all red and now it’s reversed with the Sutphen engines all red and this new tower white over red. Are they all demos and that’s how they came, or did they spec them to be like that?
#6 by Mike hellmuth on July 30, 2025 - 10:48 AM

It sure does look that way! Nice looking truck. What did they get rid of?
#7 by crabbymilton on July 30, 2025 - 9:22 AM

Very impressive. Looks like the ladder is touching the cloud.