Chicago fd your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks to everyone who responds keep them safe out there job well done you should be proud appreciate you guys thanks even in the windy city of Chicago you should be proud ! Joe
Everytime I hear that long Wailing Siren I get goosebumps, whether you're on the street and you see your brothers and sisters responding, or you're the one on the rig that day. There's nothing like hearing that roaring siren indicating that righteous people are hauling ass in route upon Swift wings to do the best they can to help those in need 🚨🚒🚑🚓🚨 #GodBlessUs #SoOthersMayLive
Yes and no. This particular call was for an alarm activation, called a Cold Box, at a hospital. The fireman on watch announces "Cold Box" a couple times to alert the men that it's not a report of fire which would be a "Still Alarm."
Nope. The only missing rig is Ambulance 10. Most firehouses in Chicago built after 1960 have tons of extra space, sometimes in case reserve or ancillary apparatus can be stored there, or to facilitate "pull through" parking, where the rigs pull in through the rear instead of backing in from the front, or because they bought a standard suburban "fire palace/central station" design which is a great place to park rigs but a terrible place to live, work, and sleep.
i wish the Chicago fire department had a fireman's pole and i also wish the Chicago fire department on Chicago fire also had a fireman's pole, i wish all fire departments had fireman's pole, but unfortunately some fire departments dont have a fireman's pole
I was in Chicago once and I saw a full house responding with squad one but I didn’t have my RU-vid channel back then I was like seven when this happened
I was hoping to see a real roll out. When I was assigned to a big house our full roll out was 2 engines, squad, truck BC and DC. Those were the days retired now 30 years career retired a Captain. Nice video though.
Our largest houses are engine/truck/squad/command van and engine/engine/tower ladder/deputy district chief. Most commonly it's engine/truck/ambulance, maybe a chief.
Very cool video. Only negative is just the rapid movements of the camera, would be a nice thing to get away from. Smooth and zoom, they are your friends.
Why doesn't the battalion chief rig (Explorer) get out in front of the other apparatus to clear traffic & Intersections? Seems like the city would rather lose that to a TC than a 10x more expensive fire engine.
@@joefather2463 a fire engine or a ladder truck getting into an accident is a costly thing because they are extremely expensive and whenever they are involved in an accident or something else it puts the rig out of service for quite a long time due to investigations and having to repair the vehicle , unless the manufacturer is nearby it will take quite a while to get the repairs done. Fire apparatus aren't as tough as people think they are and they most certainly aren't easy to maintain like your average car, the crew is responsible for the apparatus each time they are out on the road with it.
@@joefather2463 I work next to the Sutphen Fire and EMS depot that BUILDS these vehicles, to clarify most engines are generally all aluminum or steel boxes dropped onto a standard truck chassis, they aren't built as heavy as you'd imagine. Usually a fire truck will take similar damage to a dump truck or some mid range police vehicles and will be out of commission from an accident, to repair an engine it has to return to its original build facility, so for instance any of the trucks built at our local sutphen facility RETURN to our sutphen facility for updates, repairs, etc. We actually had a rig the other day sitting in their yard all the way from Illinois, to clarify that means that truck is out of commission for at minimum three days to get there for the service, however long said service takes them to complete and then another three days to return to its station. You're looking at easily a week before that engine is back on the roads IF the service only took a day, it usually doesn't. I get your thinking, I used to think the same, but talking with the guys who build these engines, they're honestly weirdly fragile and have to be maintained to continue keeping people like you and me safe
Wait I swear the caller that was announcing the fire trucks said truck 26 36 44 107 or something like that and a couple of others 😂 how come I see only 2 trucks lol
I may be wrong, I am not from Chicago nor do I know very much about the CFD. From what I heard one of the commissioners many years ago liked Boats and has something to do with that. Again, might wrong. Not really sure. Just what I’ve heard.
The first CFD commissioner loved boats so much, that he incorporated the green lights on all fire trucks. Sidelights: These red and green lights are called sidelights (also called combination lights) because they are visible to another vessel approaching from the side or head-on. The red light indicates a vessel's port (left) side; the green indicates a vessel's starboard (right) side.
Fun note, in San Francisco, the fire trucks(not the engines) have a single green light in front. I read somewhere that it helps distinguish between vehicles when multiple are on scene, as it gets really foggy there.
@@markappelman576 Very close. Commissioner Albert Goodrich's family owned a steamship company in the 1920's when CFD was completing a transition to motorized apparatus and he recommended green left/red right marker lights so that firemen could tell in smoky conditions whether an apparatus was coming towards them or going away. 1920's headlights were not great.
Can y’all please explain to me I have never gotten a correct answer how come in big city’s like New York Chicago Baltimore they don’t have units at the same station with the same number like this video engine 95 was with truck 26 why isn’t engine 26 with truck 26. Like our stations in Louisiana have take engine 17 with truck and medic 17 engine 1 with rescue truck and medic 1 all at the same house how come Chicago and other places aren’t like that. They have mixed numbers in the house.
maybe its the number when it was made might be the 26th ladder made for chicago fire department and 92nd engine (not counting the trucks that got replaced or not in service)
There are a few reasons for that: Mutual Box Response. They're on the same box, so, why the heck not. They can chill out at other fire stations and jump their calls if they're friendly about it. Move-up Assignment. Engine 26 may be out on a prolonged call and 95 is there to fill the gap. On Loan. 95 may be there because 26 is out of service. Merger, Reorganization, Station Closure, Recent Purchase. Fire Stations DO go out of business, close, get decertified for a variety of reasons or merge together. Back in the olden days any bumpkin could start up a fire station and you can wind up with 3 or 4 stations within spitting distance of each other serving only a couple thousand people. (This usually turns into a brutal, unfriendly rivalry). Apparatus can be acquired during such an activity and it's still possible to keep the wrap until it gets recertified and or renumbered. We can also purchase an apparatus and put it in service right away pending rewrapping (because places that do that are usually booked out months). Sentimental value. Station 95 may not exist anymore, but for a number of reasons that engine will carry that 95 until the body rots off. Other nonsense. The bay door that houses Engine 95 could be broken and the station doesn't have spare room to shuffle trucks so now it's here until the door is fixed. This is an actual problem/solution I have personally seen.
Before the 1920's, almost all firehouses in Chicago were single unit houses, whether engine or truck, because in horse drawn days the horses could only gallop about a mile. Houses were placed a mile apart so that someone could get there at the gallop while more distant units arrived slowly as the horses began to tire. Generally speaking, closing and moving firehouses has been greatly resisted, which means that with 99 engines in service there are 97 firehouses, with only two double-engine houses. As trucks were moved into rebuilt or expanded engine houses, they moved in with whichever engine was closest or most appropriate. Since each company had its own establishment and history, those histories were maintained and preserved rather than eliminated just because somebody thought having one number on the side of all the rigs would soothe their OCD.
This particular "Cold Box" is a fire alarm activation for a hospital. You can hear the CAD terminal calling out 4 engines, 2 trucks, and a chief. In this case, engine truck and chief would go together to basically any fire, gas leak, and some automatic alarms.
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