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[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

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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.