Enforcer™ PUC™ Pumper - Des Plaines, IL

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@franklewis6943 3 жыл бұрын

Paint scheme, front bumper and center-mount Mars "borrowed" from Chicago FD. I wonder if Des Plaines has green warning lights on the starboard side, too. But then, they are a suburb of the Windy City. Regardless, nice rig.

@rolandmiller5456 3 жыл бұрын

A lot of fire departments paint their rigs Chicago style Frank. I like the red and black I think it looks damn sharp.

@franklewis6943 3 жыл бұрын

@@rolandmiller5456 I like the look as well, and CFD was the first to adopt the paint scheme way back in the 1950s, when every other fire department was painting their rigs solid red or occasionally white. Indeed, it's quite likely Des Plaines purchased retired CFD rigs decades ago, before the community could afford to buy new, and those rigs worked for them as well as they had for CFD. Hence, they've continued to spec the CFD-style front bumper and the Mars light centered under the windshield. Nothing wrong with borrowing a design from another department--the whole reason manufacturers post new deliveries on their websites (and videos on KZbin) is so departments starting the design process can see where others departments are thinking outside the box to get ideas for their own build that maybe they hadn't considered before that--as long as it's a design that works for yours. I was complimenting CFD with my comment, not disparaging Des Plaines.

@dmen87 3 жыл бұрын

The black and red paint scheme that was adopted from the Chicago Fire Department (along with the Red and Green lights), an homage to ships that could be seen in bad weather. They run the Red and Green Nautical lights on most of their rigs. Back in the 1920's, the CFD could only paint the doors red and had leave their black tar roofs unpainted and so they adopted it fleet wide, and it stuck. The DPFD never ran retired CFD trucks to my knowledge, they used to use Darley's prior to the Pierce conversion.

@franklewis6943 3 жыл бұрын

@@dmen87 You're correct about the reason behind the paint scheme, but it originated with the Ford Model "A"s the department purchased for their battalion chiefs; the frontline apparatus was mostly open-cab, so there was no roof to paint any color. As for the nautical lighting theme, that was introduced by Commissioner Albert Goodrich, whose family owned a steamship company that operated on Lake Michigan, and who grew up dreaming of being a steamer captain; it was his personal homage to both the ships and the sailors. Along with the paint scheme it makes for a unique and iconic appearance.