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Englewoodians?
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- Chicago
Fire Department union officials are calling for city leaders to address
a vehicle shortage as they say some fire stations are currently
operating without proper equipment.
A large lot filled with city vehicles in need of repair takes up more than a city block on the South Side. It is filled with ambulances, trucks and fire engines.
While the repair lot is full, the fire station down the street in the heart of Englewood, one of the busiest stations in the city, has no fire truck.
As Larritorious is a Englewoodian native, word is that he'll be equipping squad cars with fire extinguishers, hydrant keys and buckets to provide immediate rudimentary fire protection due to CFD shortages.
- It will be called Law Enforcement Fire and Rescue Training.
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Labels: fire fighters
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
95 Comments:
I was at White Castle, loved them....an hour later Le Farts.....6 minutes later....Le Dumpo.....
What I heard from the fire neighbors, two useless exempt ranks told the truck guys to throw as much truck equipment as they could on a 30 year old engine and the engine had no brakes. They refused. Good on 'em for standing up to the useless bosses.
LEFART? Or Le Fart?
Trucks , Engines and Towers are made for fighting fires and rescue not for chasing ambulances 35x a day or being first responders to the 19yr old with a tummy ache. No wonder most of these apparatus have 175k miles on them falling apart and rusting away.
Just in time for the October 8th anniversary. This town does need an enima
No money for basic fire & police services. There needs to be a forensic audit to see where they are pissing the tax dollars away. They are the same Democrats in the federal government that say they are out of money to aid American victims from Hurricane Helene but just gave Lebanon 157 MILLION. In 2022 the feds gave 70 BILLION in foreign aid. Wonder what that gave since?
I think I seen a bunch of illegals riding around on one. Check the Home Depot parking lot at 47 th and western
Maybe CFD and the mayor can pass out ...free smoke detectors...buy twenty.
We can call in the press to promote this...
Well....Think...
It's my understanding that the city doesn't own any firehouse or fire apparatus. They were sold and privately owned.
Consistent with dept training HaHa
Let the whole city burn down and start over...
Mayor Buckethead keeps an incredible pace at proving himself to be a world class moron completely over his head.
This is Chicago/ Obama's democratic party!
No one but Democrats to blame!
That is the funniest shit !!!!
Might have to start organizing bucket brigades and go back to using horses.
Who cares....the teachers need a raise!
That raggedy
Privatize Fleet Management.
Seems most of those garage mechanics aren't very skilled.
No money for equipment, too many pensions to cover. See how it works now? It's not sustainable and never has been.
Where’s Johnny and company on this? On another golf outing? In “North Carolina” with the Meal Truck? No where near this of course.
The Amazing Kreskin Says:
I see many more IOD’s coming soon in the future.
OT: Who makes disability payments? Pension fund or city?
Will “violence interrupters” receive this training?
Returning to the fire department in place at the time of the Chicago fire in 1871. That's "progress"?
Why does this not surprise me?
I heard a rumor that the city is going to buy up used U haul trucks, and vans and then outfit them with medical kits, stretchers and with fire extinguishers, and hoses and stuff. They will then be dispatched out on lower priority calls for service.
Sounds "raggedy"....
Looks like they are going to have to raise taxes again to pay for more emergency equipment...I hope CTU doesnt mind sharing...
On no! Not me
What you say is true, the people in power are not that bright. Just keep it in mind whenever you here the conspiracy people talk about "Deep State" this and that. You can't give the people in charge that much credit. They are not bright enough to pull it off. The government is made up of people, human beings, who are imperfect, vain, prideful, greedy, self centered, and arrogant. But, there are some that are decent, hard working, and true public servants.
Some property downtown is leased from private property owners for firehouses. But, most are owned by the city.
"Let the whole city burn down and start over..."
Anyone have Mrs. O'Leary's number?
The blue gummed, camel tooth ignoramus does give a fuck if the entire neighborhood burns the fuck down !
DEI mechanics?
I’m not sure if anyone took notice to the 100’s (not exaggerating) of brand new CTA buses that were at the DNC to shuttle people back and forth from downtown to United Center. Wonder where all that cash came from? And how far in advance they had to order those buses…
Great point. Would last a lot longer if they weren’t sent on all those bs calls and backing up paramedics who can call if they need assistance
Between the pension funding problem. No Unioin Contract. Now this problem with the Fire trucks. Why is Local 2 not takeing legal action against the City?
since the dems spend millions on violence interrupters,,, why not spend some taxpayer money on fire interrupters????
For some reason raggedy seems to be a ghetto insult to this incompetent piece of shit. So everybody start using it. You young-ins with the social media and X get those raggedy memes going.
The fleet mechs are probably told to Band-Aid the rigs together, since the City is broke already.
the new seven cps boards members make sure you put a big l in front their names for losers
ask for CPD volunteers to crosstrain as CFD work 24 on 48 off ,will wake up and respond to fires or calls of people shot. try it you'll like it.
Heard that Garden Homes is changing quarters to 111th street firehouse and Evergreen Park is sending their truck and firemen to Truck 20. Is this true? Also Evanston is sending an engine to a North side firehouse to cover while those 3 engines are OOS.
100% agree. Sending out the rigs for every ambulance call is ridiculous and has consequences (repairs up the ash)
Even with a blank check it's not like they can walk onto a lot and buy fire trucks and engines. This problem was years in the making. Exempt rank heads need to roll, but this being Chicago....
its mazing in the western suburbs their fire departments a properly equipped with the latest equipment , personnel and technology
What does Johnny have to do with this, sure if local 2 asked for anything he would volunteer his help. Get over it, you lost.
Trucks , Engines and Towers are made for fighting fires and rescue not for chasing ambulances 35x a day or being first responders to the 19yr old with a tummy ache. No wonder most of these apparatus have 175k miles on them falling apart and rusting away.
The reason they respond along with ambulances is to assist in case the 2 paramedics or emt's are not enough; such as in the case of performing CPR... Also, some trucks are manned by paramedics while most ambulances are now staffed with emt's!
You're correct. Also most of them are extremely lazy and half ass everything they do
My neighbor owns a Dalmatian
Then you don't understand very much.
Remember Ford telling the city fuck you pay me.
No credit for you.
Somebody who gets it. I remember when they started doing that.
Thought Fire could refuse calls? I remember years back we'd get a call (CPD) to go see if fire was really needed. Then let them know afterwards.
Nothing will happen....DID hires all of them!!!
Bring back the crown Vic
Don’t know if that’s true or not but they do have the system in place to respond to multi box fires city, and suburbs risk can respond to each others. This just shows the gross incompetence of the mayor who is clueless about anything looks like he’s on drugs just look at them.
Is this why they’re cutting back on overtime and new hires?
"OT: Who makes disability payments? Pension fund or city?"
Answer: You do. So don't be afraid to drop a dime on the scammers.
The Fire Department does not “own” any firehouses or fire apparatus, those are all assigned to Fleet and Facilities Management for budgetary purposes. Friedman Properties owns the land underneath Engine 42 at Illinois and Dearbornbut I think they are required to include a firehouse in any redevelopment plans for the site.
Hard to find parts for twenty to thirty year old rigs.
You mean sue them in the county courts that are also bought and paid for by Big Toni and the CTU?
Ummmm, no.They run 3 men on the engine and 2 on the ambulance and hope the ambulance isn’t out if a fire cones in. I’d rather ride a 20 year old rig with 5 men than a brand new one with 3.
Firefighters get paid for being cross trained as Emergency Medical Technicians.Do your job!
Keep Evergreen Park and Merriontte Park pd and fd where they are now. Useless. Don’t want them in Chicago,
Firefighter EMT
Raggedy, raggedy, raggedy.
Shops are privatized (2FM). No more overnight shifts. 1 emergency overnight mechanic. Spares are older than the kids on the job and WAY past OSHA compliance.(Hair gel rigs) Rigs are not designed to go hard acceleration/hard stop 20 times a day for EMS with all that weight, eventually something is going to give. It will only take a cell phone video of somebody dying in a fire filled window to hopefully produce a change
Fire truck desert
Where does one drop this dime at? Not the person that originally asked this.
Yes. I know but it’s a calculated risk not to mention majority of the time companies aren’t need and they’re held up but to tell me a tower ladder needs to be a first responder for a 20yr old with a cut on his finger because there isn’t a single available ambulance is absurd.
See 3:27. You're retarded
Every city worker is Lazy from cfd down to street and sans. cfd must stop crying about not having enough trucks, my bed is bumpy, coffee too hot, etc.
FirefighterEMT. Do what you are paid to do.
Why not covert some trailers and put tow hitchs on the cars. A car breaks down hook it up to another car.
It's the unions...
My dad took his squad in for a new headlight back in the late 60's...
He was down for hours waiting for an 'electrician' to change the bulb...
I imagine it's no different today...
There is not a single ambulance in the CFD staffed by one, let alone 2 EMTs. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, maybe just don’t talk.
That makes no sense in this case. The FFs aren’t paid to maintain the rigs.
Make firefighters walk or ride bikes to fires. Only 3 blocks away from fires with all the houses they have.
No. Rehires are available every day it’s just there aren’t paramedics 1. going to paramedic school anymore 2. the few that do aren’t applying to Chicago. When I got on that paramedic hire list in 2013 there were 1600 applicants hired over a two year period with medic classes in the academy of a solid 90-100 in rotation throughout the year.
Right now as I write this there is a new medic class in the academy of only 13.
13.
On the fire side applicants for the single role firefighter spot aren’t passing the physical exams, aren’t showing up for further processing and or moved on. Nobody waits on the CFD hire list for 10 years anymore.
This city would be fucked if there was another 9/11 type attack
Dude the city is still the city because due to budget reason Graham made up a department and gave them all the fleet and facility assets to balance a budget sheet doesn’t change the fact that 90% of firehouses are owned by the city and all the apparatus. It’s asinine to say because a different agency has them under their budget they aren’t owned by the city. By that logic the police do not own the squad cars or the stations
Fleet should go back to pool fleet only fire and police should go back to their own mechanics with CFD and CPD making purchaseing choices. AIS only cares about snowplowsand streets and San. They buy silly vans for wagons and the cheapest fire trucks that are totaled after one fender bender
They can’t get there that’s what the post is about
1127. Do some research. Hell talk to fire personnel. I'm retired fire. They removed fire poles in all houses due to liability for the new owners. The house and apparatus ate maintained but not owned by the city.
Maybe that can start with you, asshat.
Go out to Hollywood and see if you can score a couple of those rigs that they use on one of the 500 tv shows about Chicago grab a couple crown Vic’s while you’re at it
Unfortunately that’s probably coming. Check out Shawn Ryan’s podcast.
The pension fund is reimbursed by the city for disability payments.
Wherever Brandon Johnson resides, I’m sure that he has top notch equipment since, God forbid, his black wife and three black children who live on the west side of Chicago need to be rescued from a fire.
This is a story that needs a daily Letter to the Editor to Trib, SunTimes, and Crains. I keep telling folks how under-equipped CFD is, and how dangerous it consequentially is to everyone here, only to get that "Go away MAGA" look from my progressive-liberal fellow Chicagoans. Most white professionals still living in Chicago are in deep deep deep state of denial, think Kamala Harris is supreme presidential candidate, and think they're safe in their beds at night.
709, my firehouse has five poles installed in 1926, they removed one some years ago to install equipment in the space. The houses and apparatus are owned by the city, but assigned to 2FM for budgetary purposes. You think anybody would want to own a fleet of 20 year old rigs with 180k miles on them like mine? Call one of the new houses where the HVAC room is locked and you have to call the assigned building engineer to change the thermostat.
They are cutting back on new hires but overtime is through the roof. The CFFU contract mandates the number of engines, trucks, and ambulances that are manned every day. The city figured out a while ago that they can save health care costs, pension payments, and training costs by paying overtime to people already on the job. If they save $15k in costs while paying out $12k in overtime, they are ahead of the game.
Which is not much help to the medics running 20+ calls a day on one day's rest because of mandatory overtime.
Those shows are made here in Chicago and all the rigs they used at the start of the series were city-owned spares. The old Truck 81 was a 1992 Seagrave that they had to replace because they couldn't find spare parts. I've seen the rig with Squad 3 markings on the street running calls as a spare over the summer when they were on hiatus.
Pension fund
There are still poles in all the houses that used to have them. Some were removed for remodels but osha recently made the city put them back in service. This is why you are loosing your union vote.
disregard squad...... so goes that theory
now get me some of the old squads from Hill St Blues and that Old Style sign
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