Chicago Fire Department

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6-7-5

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Squad 1A

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Engine 98

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Command Unit

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Engine 13

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Batt 1

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Squad 1A

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Ladder 3

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Ladder 6

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old beat up spare seagrave

 

Is the amount of cancer on that not-so-old Seagrave atypical or is that usually how CFD apparatus end up?  Like any big city, I realize that a rig will be well-worn as it enters reserve status but that truck appears to be really eaten up.

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Ronnie, most of those old Seagrave aerials look like that, mainly due to the use, and climate, lots of road salt used in Chicago.

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Ronnie, most of those old Seagrave aerials look like that, mainly due to the use, and climate, lots of road salt used in Chicago.

 

Now that I am thinking about it, those Seagrave trucks are around the 20-year mark.  I didn't realize, until I started thinking about it, that they were that old.  They just looked "especially" beaten up as compared to some of the other Chicago rigs of the same vintage (or older).

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the Seagraves are 1995's and very tired..It has a steel body as opposed to the E\-One towers that are aluminum they are beat too...just not rusted out

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the Seagraves are 1995's and very tired..It has a steel body as opposed to the E-One towers that are aluminum they are beat too...just not rusted out

 

Steel body + Chicago FD run volume = rusted and beaten

 

Aluminum body + Chicago FD run volume = not as rusted but beaten nonetheless

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FDNY Seagraves from the 1990's and early 2000's have the exact same problem...the shops have become masters at cutting out bad cab sections and replacing them with diamond plate patches!

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got some shots of 688 from last summer's air show..just got to processing them now.....

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other side

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rough seas

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rear view

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with the jet ski