Chicago FD Engine 52, a classic conventional FWD pumper working at an extra alarm fire in 1958
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This is the radio traffic from a 3-11 alarm with a disaster plan 3 at 6531 Lowe in Chicago (2/25/79). This occurred while my dad was chief in the 12th battalion … first thing in the morning. The chief he normally relieved, Bill Foran was acting in the big buggy and had not yet been relieved so he was responding as the division marshal. The captain of truck 20, who had some classic radio replies was Richard Fitzpatrick. The voice of the englewood office was Harry Haddon back in his heyday. This building had super long hallways, masks were barely in use at this time and the people were hanging out all over the place. This was a real dandy. Steve Redick
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Vintage news clipping from a 4-11 Alarm fire in Chicago April 14, 1970 at 1063 North Branch. Warren Redick collection
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Newspaper clippings from 1966 in Chicago:
January 11, 1966 4-11 alarm at 28 E Jackson
January 10, 1966 4-11 alarm at 106th & Calumet River in a grain elevator
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January 11, 1966 a 4-11 alarm fire at 28 E Jackson in Chicago. Warren Redick collection
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January 10, 1966 a 4-11 Alarm fire in Chicago at 106th & Calumet River in a Grain Elevator. Warren Redick collection
Warren Redick collection
I just returned from Arkansas. I brought back the rest of my dad’s fire collection and was surprised to find this. 5-11 and 4 Specials at 32nd Place & Bensen in Chicago. I remember dad took this in while I was at school, and I hadn’t seen this photo for many years. I believe the Snorkel setting up may have been SS-1. Most of the shots of this fire I have seen are black & white.
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5-11 and 4 Specials at 32nd and Bensen in Chicago. Warren Redick photo
I returned from Arkansas with a lot of my dad’s collection. One of the things he had displayed on his wall was a series of 3 x 5 color prints from a 5-11 he and I were at in 1974. This was a cold storage warehouse and I recall it burned for days. I also remember at some point the building collapsed onto an adjacent structure causing the transmission of another extra alarm. We took it in well after the initial alarm and toured the fireground getting these shots of some classic rigs in action. The image with Big John in the background is probably one of the few images you will see with both guns working. Most times they couldn’t muster up the water supply to use both. Also note the 2000-GPM LaFrances often used both ports on the hydrant. They had an order that no other pumper was to share a hydrant with a 2,000-gallon rig, thus giving them the ability to use both steamer ports.
These photos were in horrendous condition … colors way off and faded. I was surprised at how much of the damaged images I was able to restore. They are far from perfect but at least they are now useable. I bet if I made them B&W they would be near perfect. Enjoy the history.
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Steve Redick submitted several historic images from fire scenes in Chicago representing a period from 1958 to the early 1980s. Images as noted were taken by Steve or his father Warren Redick, a retired who retired from the CFD as a battalion chief.
A silhouette of a CFD engine at a 5-11 Alarm fire in September of 1958. This was a vacant building in the stockyards near 42nd Street and marshfield. Warren Redick photo
A tractor-drawn aerial prepares to go to work at a 5-11 Alarm fire at the old International Harvester works at 26th and Rockwell in Chicago. Warren Redick photo
A 5-11 Alarm fire at Lawrence and Broadway on Chicago’s north side in July of 1958 with multiple Mack engines and a tractor-drawn aerial with a wooden ladder. Warren Redick photo
Chicago Engine 110 using an L-Model Mack fire engine is working at at 5-11 Alarm fire in July of 1958. Warren Redick photo
The old and new working side by side in this photo at a fire south of Chicago’s Loop in February of 1959 shows a water tower and the first Snorkel using elevated master streams. Warren Redick photo
Chicago Engine 103 at the 5-11 Alarm fire at the old International Harvester works at 26th and Rockwell in Chicago. Warren Redick photo
Chicago Tower Ladder 23 with an E-ONE Hurricane tower ladder setting up at harry’s Lumber, a 5-11 Alarm fire at Northwest highway and Harlem. Steve Redick photo
Chicago Engine 110 using an American LaFrance Century Series engine at a 5-11 Alarm fire at Harry’s Lumber Company on Chicago’s northwest side. Steve Redick photo