Chicago Fire Department

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[quote name='firepost' date='31 January 2010 - 04:00 AM' timestamp='1264930804' post='361346']

[b]Dave you have the numbers wrong as far the total number of Snorkels that the CFD had owned.The CFD had owned a total of 25, not 24 Snorkels which includes the three HME Central States 55 foot Snorkels that are currently running on the Squads that are located in the city proper and Reserve Snorkel 1 (the 1982 Seagrave Pierce 85 footer).

I have a hunch that the Snorkel or Snorkels that you might have missed was the 55 foot Snorkel that was retrofitted onto Engine 12 which ran at O'Hare Field around 1980 and subsequently ran first as Squad 6 and then as Squad 7 until 1988 when it was replaced with a Heavy Duty Spartan /Supervac Rescue Squad or you may have missed the Original Oshkosh Pierce 75 footer that was a 1972 Model that I had wrote about in a few recent post's on Chicago's Snorkels. So even though you have the three 1974 Oshkosh Pierce Snorkels listed you probably overlooked the 1972 model.[/b]

[/quote]This was a numerical correction as I when I did a recount I found that the CFD had owned 25 Snorkels and not 26 or 24.