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Archive for category Historic FD radio trafic
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Filmore and Homan, what a dandy this was. I found it in my archive
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Once again Steve Little has opened his archive with this recording of traffic from a 3 day period between October 20-22, 1976. Some great stuff.
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Thanks to Steve Little for sharing this audio from two 2-11 Alarm fires in 1976
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Russ Coughlin, long time fan and collector of all things radio traffic has shared a copy of the very interesting radio traffic from the Tennaco Chemical Company 5-11 & 5 Specials at 3615 S. Iron Street. Some interesting voices can be heard. On the FAO side Art Benker and Rich Meeker. In the field 224 (DDC4) Bill Foran. This is a great listen!Thanks to Russ for sharing this from his collectionSteve
4-11 Alarm fire at 1441 S Wabash
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I have opened my audio archive to share the radio traffic from this job. One of the FAO voices to recognize was Phil McMahon, many old timers will remember him. Dick Hyland answered the 911 call and gave out the still. On the field side many will recognize Louis Galante as the responding deputy in his days prior to being fire commissioner. Ed Altman was 221 that day.
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Here is some tremendous Chicago FD radio traffic I believe to be from September 7, 1974. A 3-11 plus numerous other fires. This is from a friend’s collection. Some of the voices will be very familiar to many of you old timers. Some of the office voices: Tom Shevlin, Ron Kaiser, Irv Bisk, Hank Wilwers, and Jeff Scwartz. Some companies of interest: 25, 51, and 24. This recording has it all … a MUST LISTEN
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I opened up the archives again – 6/10/87 For those keeping score its Mario Cabrera and Art Benker on fire alarm side of the radio. The late Duke Schneider on engine 112.
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This recording made by Jim Regan seems to pick up on the evening of January 10, 1982. Suburban mutual aid was called in as they were battling a conflagration on Junior Terrace. Art Benker is on the radio in the FAO and the chief was Joe Brichetto. Amazing how calm and matter of fact he was as he described how they were gonna lose another apartment building. You can also hear Louis Galante a few times as a second responding deputy chief. These recordings don’t do justice to the horrible cold and fire conditions members faced that day
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Some more classic CFD radio. Warren Jonas was the call taker and yours truly gave out the still on the amplifier. Joe Pavlik was on the radio in the office. I think the 7th battalion was Mike Hughes 2-11 3607 Fullerton. Nothing unusual about this but just a good old typical extra alarm.
