This next installment (our 9th) in our series highlighting The Color of Fire Trucks, comes again from Bill Friedrich and looks at MABAS Division 7. This MABAS division covers Kankakee County and part of Iroquois County.
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This was the only white vehicle in the Essex FD fleet.
In Kankakee, this was one of two lime-green Macks in the fleet, both of which had white roofs. The other was a Mack-CF engine. Both are now gone from the roster.
The Kankakee Township FD was all lime-green at one time. All subsequent vehicles are painted red.
The Pembroke FPD had a few lime green rigs. Now they are all red.
The Otto Township FPD had lime green at one point. Now they too area all red.
This is the only yellow rig in the Papineau FPD fleet. It was purchased last year from the Glenside FPD in MABAS Division 12.
The Bourbonnais FPD had a few yellow rigs. All the others were red.
This was the only lime-green rig in the Grant Park Fire District fleet. Everything else has always been red.
The Chebanse Township FPD, in Clifton, had two white rigs, all the rest are red.
Salina Township still has this white rig. At one point they had a white brush truck. Everything else is red.
St.Anne FD had the blue rescue truck. This was repainted white/red. Everything else has always been red.
New deliveries
Oct 15
Here are a few recent area updates:
- Bellwood (Division 20) has a new 2010 GMC/Osage Type III ambulance
- Nunda Rural (Division 5) has their new 2010 Ferrara engine
- Limestone FPD (Division 7, Kankakee County) has a new 2010 Ferrara Inferno rescue pumper