This from Steve Redick:

I was doing some scanning from the “wayback” files and found a few you might like to see…

The first was a huge pile of RR ties in Bensenville that burned for hours and hours..early 80s. Got some rig shots including the old Bensenville International Squad rig..I remember at this fire the oxygen levels near it got low and one fireman started acting very erratically til they got him into better atmosphere..very strange but no one thought of using masks at an outside fire back then.

I got a lot of interest in the Elk Grove tiller shot too…..

Found a coupla shots of some Mt Prospect rigs, and the Wood Dale truck

Also a fire in a trailer in Morton Grove at the old OCC site (Oakton Community College)

All these should be from the early 80s and shot on Kodacolor negative film…

Steve

Bensenville engine. Steve Redick photo

Railroad ties on fire in the 1980s. Steve Redick photo

Wood Dale Pirsch ladder truck. Steve Redick photo

Railroad ties on fire in the 1980s. Steve Redick photo

Bensenville squad. Steve Redick photo

Elmhurst Mack CF engine. Steve Redick photo

Another shot of the Elmhurst engine. Steve Redick photo

Leyden Township Hendrickson/FMC engine. Steve Redick photo

Elk Grove Village Pirsch TDA. Steve Redick photo

Mount Prospect American LaFrance engine. Steve Redick photo

Mount Prospect American LaFrance engine. Steve Redick photo

Mount Prospect squad 543. Steve Redick photo

Morton Grove engine with burned out trailer. Steve Redick photo

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