Posts Tagged Elk Grove Village Fire Department history

Elk Grove buys new tower ladder

May 31

Posted by Admin in Fire Department News, New Apparatus Order | 12 Comments

The Elk Grove Village Fire Department has purchased a Pierce Velocity, 100′ rear-mount tower ladder from Pierce. The stock unit has a pump and water tank, a first for Elk Grove Village in many years.

Here are several of the previous trucks:

1970 Mack CF/Pirsch 100′ TDA. jack Connors photo

Jack Connors photo

Elk Grove Village FD Truck 138 was a 1970 Mack CF/Pirsch 100′ TDA that was upgraded in 1987 with a new Spartan tractor. Jack Connors photo

Larry Shapiro photo

1983 Emergency One aerial with a Spartan CFC chassis

Assigned as Truck 9, this was a 1983 Spartan CFD/Emergency One 110′ rear mount (0/0). Jack Connors photo

Delivery photo of the 1983 Spartan CFC/Emergency One 110′ 0/0 rear mount aerial. Larry Shapiro photo

In other news, Elk Grove will be purchasing an as of yet underdetermined type small squad to be housed with the new tower ladder at Station 7 as a jump company to handle EMS responses.

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Elk Grove Village FD history

Nov 9

Posted by Admin in Fire Department History | 10 Comments

A reader has asked for information and specs corresponding to the 1970s series Oshkosh/Pierce/Snorkel that saw service in Elk Grove Village.

Elk Grove Village Fire Department history

Elk Grove Village Fire Department Snorkel.

thanks Scott for supplying the photo

The following is a reprint from a local newspaper when the unit was delivered:

Elk Grove Village Fire Department history

Some will notice that;

the chassis is indicated to be from FWD, but the cab appears to match the Oshkosh units which saw service in Chicago.
the year is not indicated
there’s no mention of a water tank

Tags: 75' Snorkel, Elk Grove Village Fire Department, Elk Grove Village Fire Department history, fire truck picture, historic fire truck photos, Snorkel fire truck

Down memory lane …

Jul 15

Posted by Admin in Apparatus on-scene, Fire Department History, Fire Truck photos, Historic fire apparatus | 19 Comments

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