Chicago Fire Department

[Guest]

How far would a fire have to escalate for out-of-service-for-training companies to be returned to service and sent home? In Dallas, a 2-11 fire will return all out of service companies to service (unless its mechical issues).

[Guest]

[quote name='rjtoc2' post='88254' date='Mar 18 2007, 17:36 ']How far would a fire have to escalate for out-of-service-for-training companies to be returned to service and sent home? In Dallas, a 2-11 fire will return all out of service companies to service (unless its mechical issues).[/quote]

Im sure they can be pulled if there is something big, Some of those companies are from the far north and northwest side. They are Downtown. Its a good 45 minute + drive in good traffic from their stations.

[Guest]

Kind of a neat shot I had today while photographing the new airbus...the plane shot is a panorama so be sure and scroll...sorry its a little off topic!!!

[Guest]

Wow that is one large plane! I saw it on the news landing at JFK. It should be interesting to see if the airlines here in the states purchase any of them.

[Guest]

When a Snorkel Squad's Snorkel was in for repairs what did they do? In this 1968 Photo

it shows that it took two rigs to carry all the equipment that they had on the SS unit.

Here are the spare rigs responding to an alarm.



   



   





And here is one of the rigs after returning. Note it is Booster No.1

   

[Guest]

I bet it was an interesting ride on the tail board of booster 1

[Guest]

[quote name='T-Bone' post='89269' date='Mar 21 2007, 02:05 ']Wow that is one large plane! I saw it on the news landing at JFK. It should be interesting to see if the airlines here in the states purchase any of them.[/quote]



Nice shots, and your right she is MASSIVE.



The only thing I don't like about the thing, it's just another plane for terrorists to kill triple the amount they do with regular planes holding 250 people.



Just another flying bomb....



Ok, Im dont my little rant <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[firepost]

[quote name='doczaff' post='92514' date='Mar 30 2007, 11:56 ']When a Snorkel Squad's Snorkel was in for repairs what did they do? In this 1968 Photo

it shows that it took two rigs to carry all the equipment that they had on the SS unit.

Here are the spare rigs responding to an alarm.









And here is one of the rigs after returning. Note it is Booster No.1

[/quote]

Doc you are incorrect on two points.The first point is that the Snorkel Squads always ran with two pieces even when they had the Snorkel in service.The first piece was always the Snorkel and the second piece was always the International/Darley Fog Pressure.The Booster wagon was running as the spare piece in place of the Snorkel but the Fog Pressure was regularly assigned as the normal second piece.

The second point that you are incorrect on is that it was Snorkel Squad 3 that you have in the 1968 photograph and Snorkel Squad 3 had permanently stopped running with it's Snorkel since January 26 1967 and never had it replaced with another Snorkel for the rest of it's life.From January 26th 1967 until May 1st 1969 when the company was taken out of taken out of service it ran without a Snorkel assigned to it.The Chicago Fire Department continued to (inappropriately) call the company Snorkel Squad 3 until December of 1968 when they finally changed it "official" designation to Rescue 3 until it was taken out of service about 6 months later.Snorkel Squad 3 ran for just short of two years without a Snorkel before the Chicago Fire Department had let reality set in and they finally decided to change it's designation.

After they stopped running with their Snorkel which got stuck in a "Snowdrift" during the "Big Snow Storm of 1967" they continued running with two pieces however the second piece was either a second Fog Pressure wagon, a booster wagon (like in the photo) or more often then not a spare pumper or an Old High Pressure Wagon.

[Guest]

[quote name='Srresquire' post='89114' date='Mar 20 2007, 18:46 ']Kind of a neat shot I had today while photographing the new airbus...the plane shot is a panorama so be sure and scroll...sorry its a little off topic!!![/quote]

That's a nice photo Steve. Boeing sure builds a nice plane.

[Guest]

I've added another gallery of old CFD rigs...check it out



[url="http://ksc711.smugmug.com/gallery/2735877#145269414"]http://ksc711.smugmug.com/gallery/2735877#145269414[/url]



Steve

[Guest]

Srresquire- Your CFD oldies are absolutely priceless. Thank you!!!!

[Guest]

[quote name='gnarldtoad' post='59089' date='Dec 16 2006, 13:06 ']Can someone answer me this. On the Ranger/E-one rigs why did they carry hose on top of the cabs. This seems very impractical place to put it. It maybe just me but very strange and I have never been able to come up with a reasonable explanation for it.



Gnarldtoad.[/quote]

I can't explain why CFD did it, but I can tell you why we did it at a department where I used to volunteer.



Hard suction hose is required by ISO and the Mississppi Dept. of Insurance's own Rating Bureau. We purchased a used Pierce pumper that did not have brackets or a practical place to store the hose so we installed brackets to hold 2 hard suction hoses on top of the cab, much like the 3 shown in Backdraft.



They rode up there for 5 or 6 years without ever being used except for maybe training until it was sold to another department.



Hard suction hoses are almost always stored high on apparatus. Being on top of the cab did not really make them that much more impractical than putting them anywhere else.

[Guest]

here's a neat Ohare shot by Cary Skinner..a buddy of mine

[Cap4Engine]

[quote name='edburke' post='1128' date='Jul 1 2006, 01:58 ']Engine 125[/quote]





Anybody know the make-model of E-125? <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/usa.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[smketrfdny]

[quote name='AFD2181' post='94950' date='Apr 6 2007, 16:02 ']That's a nice photo Steve. Boeing sure builds a nice plane.[/quote]





Tis an airbus, Brother. A French company......

[GA_Dave]

Anybody know the make-model of E-125?

It's a 1997 HME SFO/Luverne 1500/500, one of 8.

[Cap4Engine]

[quote name='GA_Dave' post='122351' date='Jun 25 2007, 12:46 ']It's a 1997 HME SFO/Luverne 1500/500, one of 8.[/quote]





Thanks for the quick reply!!

[Ladder 68]

Dave, is that the rig that went to Engine 99 after 125's got a new rig? If so, I thought it was a '97. Any ideas?



Thanks.

[hp1530]

[quote name='smketrfdny' post='122350' date='Jun 25 2007, 09:44 ']Tis an airbus, Brother. A French company......[/quote]



LoL it even says Airbus on the side of the plane!

[GA_Dave]

Dave, is that the rig that went to Engine 99 after 125's got a new rig? If so, I thought it was a '97. Any ideas?

None. All I know is that it was delivered to E-125 in 1997. I have no tracking after that.