@@bostonrailfan2427 I don't think he was saying it's out of the city, he was remarking you don't see airport fire leave the actual airport for calls much.
@@jazzbutterworth squad 7 servers all of north west side (jefferson park edison park) just recently they were sent to a crane collapse at CTA red line bryn mawr station
@@chicagoareacta WOW! Where I'm at, my airport FD can NOT take a call outside airport property EVER unless they are special requested. They are never on an initial assignment unless it's on the property.
Exellent to see. I visited many departments around this side of Chicago some 35years ago when I was staying with a friend in Northbrook. Waukenda, Des Plaines, Evenston, etc.
That rig a 2014 e one. On a side note chicago signed a contract with e one through 2024 It has 2000 gallons of water on board, 1000 gpm pump and 250 gallons of foam which I’m on a volunteer dept dumping 250 gallons of foam would seem like it takes forever. We got a 25 gallon foam system. And we order 5 gallon buckets of foam. When the guys empty the foam tank and we go back to station it takes me 1/2 hour to refill 25 gallon.
@@BoostedDeere Thanks for the info, is that a 3 or -6% concentrate? I remember the old days(70s -80s) of using 5 gallon buckets and using a foam inductor, as we didn't have built in foam tanks then!!👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@trob0914 -it’s usually less than one percent. I’m certified to run our new engine pump. Which has a foam system. When you hit the foam button it does all the figuring but that 25 gallon tank last 25 minutes to 30 minutes on a interior attack on a 1.5 inch line. But foam 5 gallon pails are running 200 bucks a pail delivered. In my dept we will use foam but it’s initial “knock down” or if we feel we are losing ground on the fire . There is a dept west of us they hook their engine with foam up to their ladder HOLY cow does it eat foam. I’ve seen them just dump 5 gallon jug after jug. But they will order a full skid of foam. 🤣 a full skid like 15 grand delivered.
@@BoostedDeere You have it backwards. 2,000GPM pump/1,000 gallons water. No airport or industrial apparatus that size would only have 1,000GPM. If you're reading specs, it's always Pump Capacity/Water/Foam/Aerial Size (if applicable).
@@Firebuff101 -1000 gallon tank doesn’t take a tandem axle. We run 2000 gallon a single axle but it’s pushing weight limit on a single axle rig. By the time you put gear, and a pump on a 2000 gallon tank rig you gotta go tandem axle.
Given this was shot near O'Hare, that's probably Chicago FD's AARF units. Yellow is the usual color alot of departments run, for visibility on the runway.
@@Stargazzer811 they’re at Midway too and have larger crash trucks like every other major airport, and but yeah they’re the only structural fire trucks with slime…i mean lime yellow.
@@user-zm1sc1hk4x the city line is skirting that street so they’re in Chicago but by default have to be an Elk Grove address…seems shady hut really not that much. Elk Grove can’t spare officers and probably don’t care if CPD handles it
No just the units at the airports have the red and blue because of federal requirements for responding on airport grounds otherwise all other cpd units only have blue lights
@@Chicagoguy1984 someone tell Mass State Police, NONE of their cruisers have red lights. looked online and there’s no requirement that they be red and blue, just blue or a mix of red and blue.