Vintage Film ♦ 1969 Chicago Fire Department ♦ Fire Trucks ♦ Cadillac Ambulance ♦ Water Fire Boat

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[@AlwaysHalloween000]

this film footage is priceless - the guy who filmed it wouldn't believe that over 50 years later thousands of people would be watching it on something called the internet

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[@hounddog946]

I heard about the internet

[@patman7421]

Beautiful old trucks, also like the sound of the horse walking.

[@DCAFlyBoy]

Thanks for watching. I grew up around the time when they filmed it. Always enjoyed watching the fire trucks. Remember the alarm boxes on the street to call the fire department. I must have been 8 years old and pulled the alarm. I want to see if it worked. Only one fire truck 🚒 arrived. They asked me if I pulled it and said yes. They weren't happy, then they asked why, told them that I wanted to play on it. They all laughed. I was allowed to play on the truck. That was 1962. Have a great new year.

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[@mooseriddle]

Thanks for sharing this video of my hometown fire department. Brings back memories of growing up in Chicago!

[@michaelnowak2340]

SOME REALLY BEAUTIFUL TRUCKS!!!

[@DCAFlyBoy]

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[@rustynail6819]

Some of those rigs are from the late 1930's and STILL in service in 1969!! WOW!!

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[@DCAFlyBoy]

I believe so. I also have the same thoughts. Thanks for watching. Please tell your friends and family about the channel and tell them to subscribe, thumbs up, and smash the notification bell. Enjoy your weekend.

[@robertborchert932]

Tailboard riders! So nostalgic. I learned this back in the days. Ford. Mack apparatus. Good times. Hey, I learned the ropes with wooden ladders, three section extensions, swaying on the climb! American La France truck, Detroit 12v71. Tailboard riders ended in the 1990s. Still, I learned this method. That fireboat likely had a group of 6v71 Detroit diesels. Beautiful. Smoothbores, at least 500GPM There is a brief shot. Pulaski Road. Former brush monkey here. Once a monkey, always a monkey. Spent my fair share of time on structures. Jumping from a Huey is fun indeed. Miss it. The joke I shared with my brothers? Structure fire? If you don't like it, you can step outside for a smoke. Not the case with a vegetation fire. To this day, I have a shining Pulaski hanging on my wall. Best wishes from an old fire captain, and crew boss. Take care, brothers!

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[@davebutcher2011]

I love these old videos. This is the time of my life that I fell in love with the fire service.

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[@luciusvorenus9445]

Great footage of some really classic apparatus! Thanks for sharing!

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[@j.landismartin5397]

The days of wooden ladders and iron men. My mentor in the fire service was working for CFD in '69. He retired in the late '70s, moved to FLA and joined our little FD. Learned a TON from that man!

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[@MIKECNW]

Was that Robert Quinn?

[@MrDRUID27]

Real fire trucks and real firefighters! I got in the tail end so I got to appreciate a bit! 3rd generation LYH VA. My great uncles drove horses and shoveled coal to steamers!

[@DCAFlyBoy]

Thanks for watching and enjoying the video. Back then was completely different. Also had families, uncles, cousins, fathers, and sons fighting fire's. Please tell your friends and family about the channel. Remind them to subscribe, thumbs 👍, smash the 🔔🛎. Have a great Monday.

[@JulieHewes-lt9lk]

Outstanding!

[@DCAFlyBoy]

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[@WestPartChronicles]

50s-60s was the best time to be alive ngl

[@fdnyfilms3354]

LEGENDARY Footage!

[@errittsmith4536]

I love the older vehicles

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[@rja9566]

Thanks for posting!! Brought back found memories of when I was growing up in chicago! Plus in the beginning of my firefighting career. Some of the rigs were still in service when I first started!

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[@darrenoktavianus4285]

M

[@yank-tc8bz]

Amazing how far Fire Protection equipment has advanced since then.

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[@bradlund3752]

Love the old fire trucks

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[@rapman5791]

This was when firefighters fought fire and fought fire only!! There were no heroin od’s and Narcan runs, no heart attacks 10 times a day. Maybe once in a while there was a “resuscitator” call, but mostly just fires day and night. Most firefighters nowadays hate working the ambulance and only do it because they only hire paramedics now. If it wasn’t for the stipend most wouldn’t even have gotten their EMT license.

[@Stargazzer811]

You aren't wrong.

[@Fastlanejg]

Watching the video and seeing how clean the rigs is ion think some of the firefighters in this time takes pride in having a clean rig they have the new ones looking any type of way

[@DCAFlyBoy]

During the day always kept my cars clean. They took pride in their job. Please tell your friends and family about the channel and tell them to subscribe, thumbs 👍 and smash the notification bell. Have a good day. Also did you sub?

[@pipesmoker4238]

Love those Mack Bull Dogs. We had a 58 Mack pumper and a 64 Mack Pumper/Tanker. Both Thermadyne engines. 800 gallons and 1600 gallons respectfully. No power steering and the 58 no air brakes.

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[@benjamindurand3891]

Thanks

[@FB-111A]

Neat. Thanks for sharing

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[@mazsenior]

I’ll tell you what….anyone that’s ever had to train with a wooden 12’, 24’ or 50’ ladder knows just how hard and heavy that process was. And taking care of those ladders was so labor intensive! While I thought they looked beautiful on an Engine, I was sure happy when aluminum replaced them😂

[@iwasglad122]

Here's a non-fire fact about this old footage: the bells in the background at around 2.55 are actually playing the hymn tune called "St. George's, Windsor" which is usually sung to the hymn, "Come Ye Thankful People, Come" !!!

[@johnrobison4635]

This is some truly awesome footage!

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[@MrIMBECILE1]

Love those Aurora Borealis

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[@happyjack880]

I think that even today they would still clear traffic.

[@MrIMBECILE1]

@@happyjack880 they sure would!!

[@cockula776]

@@happyjack880 you aren't lying! Kinda reminds me of the Code 3 MX lightbars, I always thought the intersection sweep lights on the bottom deck reminds me of the Aurora Borealis. Question - Did any other departments use the Aurora Borealis or was it pretty much a Chicago thing? Ive always loved the Mars Light products, they looked classy and can get everybody's attention

[@happyjack880]

@@cockula776 they were used outside the Chicago area. I saw a web picture or youtube video of some department no where near Chicago that used them. It surprised me. Of course I can't remember where I saw it. I'd love to get my hands on one. Talk about the Holy Grail.

[@PowerUpJohn]

i have driven a restored vintage fire engine from the 1960's like seen in this show and was surprised on how challenging they are to drive. I am impressed by those who could drive them in really narrow areas with success. the lack of modern power steering was the main challenge for me as I only learned how to drive a fire engine about 5 years ago as an emt.

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[@NGHmusic]

Yeah the new guys have it real easy with the fancy hydraulic steering they have now.

[@DistrictFire]

Incredible footage from a great era. Being a Fireman, the thing I take away from this is that I see none of those companies staffed with more than 4 members back then. Now Chicago Engine and Truck Companies are staffed with 5. It is almost always the other way around; less manning the longer we go on. Every contract negotiation they struggle to keep 5.

[@DCAFlyBoy]

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[@robertborchert932]

Five! Absolute heaven. In my agency, it was a three man crew on the engines, four on the trucks. I had the advantage of 12 in my crew, hehe. Brush monkey. We were also added on the second alarm on structure responses.

[@rcor87]

Kind of eerie / a premonition to see the Zimmer Box Company in the background of The Joseph Medill / Engine 37 during minute 10. Engine 37 battled a 5-11 there in 1966.

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[@bear4955]

No, Robert, Zimmer was up on Elston Ave, up the North branch of the river. We have/had a lot of those style buildings in Chicago.

[@rcor87]

@@bear4955 ahhh ok. Saw the name and figured it was the same building.

[@scootertrash911]

Paper companies were a booger for us with fire in huge paper rolls standing on end and unraveling as they burned. Those fires usually burned themselves out because water wouldn't penetrate the rolls . Saw a paper company behind the fireboat.

[@adventuretonothingness7554]

this reminds me of the movie backdraft

[@albertnevaras3465]

Thank You

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[@michaelbruchas6663]

Why were the hokey sound effects added? The CFD probably did not have sound 16mm rigs. This looks like amateur not staff - film work. CFD staff photogs shot stills of fires. The film is still great visual record. Love the CFD Fire Marshall Oldsmobile… Know the Academy building well. It might be torn down in the future. Supposedly on the site of Mrs. O’Leary’s barn.

[@rickk6447]

What more could you ask for, split rims, turnout gear that look like hip waders, but the kept those rigs shiny! The good old days!……..

[@DCAFlyBoy]

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[@photone]

Engine 13 was the first due company at the Iroquois Theater Fire in Dec 1903, responding from that same house on Dearborne Street. Also, Engine 95 and Truck 26, shown at the end of the video, were on the box alarm for the tragic Our Lady Of Angels school fire, on Dec 1, 1958

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[@gregschroeder3686]

The Fire Boat had no station? I noticed the old school TV antenna on the red fire dept AC Power box. It appears with all of the lounge chairs at the rear of the Boat, that this was there station.

[@Stargazzer811]

At the time, no station was assigned no. Same went for FDNY, Detroit Fire and Seattle Fire, they didn't have stations assigned to them for the longest time. Now the boats are typically staffed by engine companies. Seattle Engine 5 if I remember correctly is assigned fireboat duty.

[@michaelmcmeel914]

Correct. The fireboat sister ships "Joseph Medill" (Engine 37) and "Victor Schlaeger" (Engine 58) were built in 1949 with bunk space on board, eliminating the need for a dock side building. Engine 37 spent summers at Navy Pier and winters at the Franklin Street Bridge/Wacker Drive. The slightly older "Fred Busse" (Engine 41), docked at the Throop Street Bridge next to Engine 28's house in Bridgeport, which had more bunk and locker space than normal to accommodate the boat crew.

[@aliciadatiles1048]

bro the fire trucks has a very good evolution litary i 90s fore truck and look at how the fire trucks look now

[@DCAFlyBoy]

Thanks for watching and the comments. I remember growing up and watching the fire trucks in the 60's. Always seeing them hanging on the back. That was wild to watch. Please let your friends and family about the channel. Remind them to subscribe, thumbs 👍 and smash the notification bell. Have a great week.

[@teresaeljinini7850]

Great

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[@ex-missourifireexplorerrob8274]

At 2:05, is that a vehicle inspection stamp/seal on the front left of the Engine's hood?

[@DCAFlyBoy]

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[@Dproud2700]

This footage would be great if it could be used in a episode of CHICAGO F.D.

[@DCAFlyBoy]

If you can get that done, I will buy you the best dinner that Chicago offers. Promise!

[@Mike_Turcott]

Milwaukee Road!

[@roberthianik5557]

Looks like the late Tony Correri on Engine 44 doing all the waving early on.

[@DCAFlyBoy]

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[@rapman5791]

That does look like Tony C

[@MIKECNW]

Some scenes are obvious but what street was it where the fire engine was racing down? How come we didn't see where they were racing to?

[@DCAFlyBoy]

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[@MIKECNW]

@@DCAFlyBoy Do you have any info I these? Including the exact neighborhoods?

[@michaelmcmeel914]

Engine 44 - Lake and Kedzie / Engine 50/HL18 - 50th and Union / Engine 25 and the Fire Academy - Taylor and Clinton / Engine 13 - Lake and Dearborn / The gray white and yellow firehouse is Engine 42 at Illinois and Dearborn / The fireboat Engine 37 "Joseph Medill" was docked at the Franklin Street Bridge across from Wolf Point / back to the Fire Academy, unmarked training rig and several companies visiting for classes (HL43, E19, E29, E72 among others) / Engine 95/HL26 at Wilcox and Pulaski.

[@hounddog946]

I remover reading that those CFD ambulances in those days were for injured Firefighters and Police Officers? Any more info?

[@DCAFlyBoy]

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[@michaelmcmeel914]

Earlier it would have been true but by 1969 it was not.

[@khxrbby]

Heh, atleast my favorite federal q siren is there.

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[@Hot1765]

I bet all those guys are dead by now

[@EvanDowell1213]

Love the fake sirens

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[@DCAFlyBoy]

Forgot to mention it is a real science

[@erichhitchcock3368]

Those were the real sirens! Today's digital BS...listen to today's FDNY wimpy fake Federal Q's. Analog days were the best.

[@erichhitchcock3368]

This vid is the S**T!

[@DCAFlyBoy]

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[@erichhitchcock3368]

@@DCAFlyBoy I've shared it with some of my FF brothers and they loved it also. I'm in CT and always wanted to check out Chicago.

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