Nice Fire Department Conehead
Courtesy of the Contrarian, this isn't dangerous at all:
- Here is something with which all Chicago residents should be racked by anxiety. Yesterday,
as CFD battled a fire at 74th and Yates in South Shore, the Battalion
Chief declared an extra alarm and requested a tower ladder.Woefully, the closest tower ladder available across the entire city was located at Grace and Damen. This ladder traveled 156 blocks — some TWENTY MILES — to respond to the extra alarm.This is an utter outrage.Of the ten tower ladders in Chicago, 5, 10, 16, 24, 39, and 54, all are out of service. At the moment, only four tower ladders are in service, TLs 14, 21, 23, and 63, all of which are stationed on the North and West Sides of the city. This leaves the whole of the South Side of Chicago —which unfortunately experiences a higher number of fires — without sufficient equipment to fight large-scale fires.This shortage of equipment is inexcusable and undeniably imperils residents whose taxes pay for fire protection. This equipment shortage also creates dangerous conditions for CFD called on to fight fires.So, now that you know, @ChicagosMayor, are you going to do something about this?
Here's exactly what Conehead is going to do about it:
- declare this is the result of systemic racist within the CFD;
- spend another $400 million on ILLEGAL ALIENS;
- have a nervous breakdown
Is any enterprising "reporter" going to pick up on this story? Maybe figure out the average age of a whole shitload of CFD apparatus? Find out when the last time was that CFD was able to buy a new engine / truck / tower? See if the rumor we had over a year ago about CFD losing it's Federal accreditation due to poorly maintained out-of-date equipment is any closer to happening?
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
134 Comments:
Can't you leave Conehead alone? He's got a wife and kids to raise on the west side of Chicago.
Who cares? I took the test twice and was told some bs social security # crap. I seen members of the same family both hired. How does a family hit the jackpot twice? We have down cars and no manpower. No time to "community police." Heres your vin in case you run out of toilet paper. Have them put an extra ladder on their duty belt with a camera.
You forgot the 300 million for low income housing. Why do people keep electing absolute imbeciles as mayor. The DEI experiment has proven to be an abject failure. Lets switch to competency now, regardless of race.
400 million on illegal aliens. My God are Democrats demonic
You know what we need? Bike lanes
Mayor coneheads office says....
Outlawing matches will stop these fires....
Next question.
Another reason we need to fight residency. We need the Fop and other unions to come together and fight residency. Majority of politicians in this city are destroying Chicago with their insane policies. We have money for illegals but can’t have a fire department with top notch equipment in a suppose world class city. When will Chicagoans wake up and vote out these insane politicians. Not only do we risk our lives at work, we risk our families life also by still being forced to live in this city. The year is 2026 in America any residency laws should be illegal, land of the free right. Wake up FOP and all the other city unions it’s time to come together for the greater good and fight the city on residency.
Not only TLs but the ambulance fleet is down as well as all of the old antique engine pumpers held together with duct tape.
One raggedy ass fleet reflecting the raggedy ass mayor of this city.
A pathetic leadership
I can't believe I am typing this, SCC you are dead wrong!!!! Conehead won't mention the illegals & he probably won't say it's racist because clearly this is ALL President Trumps fault! Then tons of fun Gov. Pigster will give some long explanation that conehead couldn't because as a public speaker conehead has marbles in his mouth but Pigster will show charts & graphs that orange man is sneaking into fire houses loosening bolts & draining oil. While taking zero responsibility both idiots will say it's all the Republicans that have caused this & all the others crisis.
Clearly the Mayor and Fire Commissioner don’t care about the public they serve or the safety of the Men and Women of the Chicago Fire Department.
City Council needs to hold hearings on this. Everyone is in danger.
Chicago has had many historic fires. From the Great Chicago Fire, Midway Plane Fire, McCormick Convention Fire, Our Lady of the Angels School fire, Sock Yard Fire, Chicago Theater Fire and many others. Many great and memorable fires with members of the CFD and the public losing their lives.
From an industry leaders, learning from the past major events to now incompetence. The city of Chicago treats its First Responders as if they are expendable and the public they serve are replaceable. This is a total disgrace!
Questions.
Why is CFD still on its back up radio channels going on 4 years?
When will the fire commissioner be shown the door?
If a natural or man made disaster "terrorism" occurs is CFD prepared? Training?
How about strategically deploying or staging the tower leader somewhere in the center of the city. This sounds like a viable asset for CFD. The CFD bosses are very similar to CPD bosses. A bunch of idiots! Idiots moved into higher rank positions of both the CFD and CPD.
I can’t wait to retire and move from here. Chicago became an embarrassing place to live and work. In 20 to 30 years they will make a movie where Chicago was once a great city and then control went to low IQ bosses and politicians.
CPD morale is lower than the Mayor’s 6% approval rating.
Thank goodness no one was hurt or killed. Another shit-show courtesy of the city of Chicago and company.
Snow plows and garbage trucks are more important to Conehead than fire trucks. Fire apparatus nowadays take at least 2 years to build, and cost millions, whereas plows and refuse trucks can be bought over the counter. Sending tower ladders on ambulance calls for ghetto aches and pains just wears them out, and they get about 2 miles per gallon. Tower ladders are essentially a bucket crane that spray water fed by a pumper. Besides that, they're of little benefit to Conehead and the public.
Orange man bad once again
The city is running dangerously inefficient. Lacking equipment, manpower and critically absence of capable leadership.
Political greed! Politicians increasing fees and taxes to reward themselves, friends and family. Democrat politicians distracting the democrat voters with Illegal immigration issues. The city elder’s should be good stewards and concentrate on their fiduciary duties to the residents of Chicago.
Chicago politicians turn to national politics for sleight of hand. Forget what’s happening in Chicago! We must fight to fund the Illegals and leave the criminals alone so they can continue to create chaos! Defund the police is alive and well. They give us inept leadership so we can be ineffective. Chaos is the goal!
In the year 2026 Chicago entered into the Twilight Zone. Losing residents and continuing to be a dangerous place to live, visit and work!
Chicago has a problem and it’s called Chicago DemocRATS. Vote them out!
CPD is messed up! CFD is just as bad. It’s management.
Fire Commissioner Holt is a disgrace.
When Mayor Johnson goes so will Commissioner Holt and Superintendent Snelling. That will be a pizza and beer night!
Knowing how this city operates and how Brandon Johnson thinks they will probably just have CFD open an Uber account. Firefighters will probably be able to respond faster...
The descending spiral of "deferred" maintenance - out of ten, six are unservicable. Remaining apparatus is naturally driven harder and harder, and it will break down even faster.
Mayor -
A. Can't grasp how a row of dominoes falls - even when the last one will slap HIM upside the head.
B. Has other priorities anyway - the rapid demographic changeover of America to ensure no-ID-required votes for his Jackass Party.
C. ...but 3 BILLION DOLLARS just for the latest "No Kings" mass distraction can be effortlessly raised from George Soros and Neville Roy Singham and all the rest.
Back around 1962, when CPD blue/whites came in, CFD Commissioner Quinn brought the first snorkels after seeing them on a visit to Germany. Also the latest ambulance design. All this stuff was rolled out and demonstrated at Soldier Field at a night event when I was a kid - we felt so proud and so much safer, like someone really cared about us.
Boy, those days are gone, huh?
In the good old days, families fled the city to subs with volunteer fire departments. They could let your property burn if the neighbors thought you were undesirable.
Now, it seems, you pay for a fire department that conehead's financial kapers and his predecessors made the entire south side suddenly a burn baby burn area. Firefighters, like LEOs, are used to finding ways to keep things together with bubble gum and a shoe lace, but this is insane and takes redlining to a whole new level.
Or is it apart of a displace and rebuild project. Burn em out the build new 15 minute prisons? Or rebuild so only illegals occupy.
Don't be silly! The majority of tax money is spent on salaries, benefits and pensions for municipal employees. Very little left over for equipment, infrastructure and public service.
Smells like the result of the
Ghetto Mayor! Hire ghetto get ghetto.
The result of closing the fire department maintenance shops and turning over that responsibility to fleet maintenance, you know the garbage truck, snow plow facility.
Also most of the snorkels which are part of the 2 piece squads are out of service. Whole city is screwed. A while back a suburban fd was battling a huge fire and requested a tower ladder as part of its mutual aid agreement and was refused.
Dont Demonize CFD!
Move! Florida is paying bonuses for out of state certified LEO’s with some departments offering help with moving costs as well. And residency, LOL, some departments you are allowed two counties travel distance from work. Oh lest we forget NO state income tax. Your vote actually is counted. Never have to shovel snow. No porkulous, conehead, or crazy CTU! Move and will the last person out kindly turn the lights out?
When Chicagoans actually come out to vote things might change. But record low turnout which got Conehead elected will not do it!
New CFD vehicle logo
We Do Raggedy
As former CFD, we are nothing but expendable numbers to the powers that be.
If an enterprising individual were to suggest that if a new ladder truck was added to the department, conehead could hold a naming contest amongst the hoard. Then he could stand proudly before the microphones as he christened the new truck Fire ICE truck 311 which would of course be the winning name the libtards chose. Then station it as close to his west side home as possible.
Maybe instead of sending a ladder truck they can send a social worker to talk the fire down as it is just the structure having an existential crisis of identity that is causing the heat.
Putting more ambulances on the street will end the need for overused firefighter EMT’s to leave the the firehouse to do a job they get paid for as cross-trained members of the fore department.Who do you want coming to your house?Someone that does not want to do a job because it does not involve a fire?This is as insane as the mayor.Twisted logic.
Any other department that fought against residency has won. But why don't we challenge it?
And if you are wondering why home insurance and building insurance rates are going up, here is another reason.
Shes heavier than whaleshit, ask Michelle Obama!
Cant wait to see next election cycle how many of you will actually become active. I dont mean just vote either. KNOCK ON DOORS etc. I Would say donate cash but I see how P.O.s get giving 5 dollars to a flower fund ...FYI the "LODGE" can pull if if you vote.
The City of Chicago should be declared a federal disaster area.
LMAO! With those little white sticks and cement parking blocks to outline the bike lanes too.
Go Fuck Yourself!
What's Conehead going to do about it? Nothing! The only thing he hates more that the police is the fire dept. All that money should be going to the illegals, Let it burn!
Previous commenter was right - why does CFD leadership not temporarily relocate one of two of the in-service tower ladders to the south side or a centralized location to be closer to possible incidents? Spread out your resources. A fifth grader could figure that part of the plan out.
Every city a democrat takes over turns into a third world city.
I dont live there anymore.... But for Pete's sake VOTE REPUBLICAN!
Why arent we stomping the guts out of prikster and johnson for blowing our pension money on ILLEGALS?
Typical chicago
One way to cut cost is stop sending CFD out for every shitbird that calls
Chicago sucks. I’m moving to Detroit. It’s more safe for sure!!!
Long as everyone who contributes NOTHING is taken care of.
Whatever happened to "if you don't work, you don't eat?" Old fashioned, I guess.
The Thrill show.It was sold as the Police and Fire show.
This is also complete incompetence on the upper levels of CFD. How did they let this happen? Fine a bunch are down. You don’t know to redistribute in all areas of the City? This is a complete embarrassment.
Don’t come in here crying because you can’t pass the psychological.
Funny aside the Tower was an apparatus no one could afford except New York.So A Chicago Fireman designed a version that could be affordable to all.And that is today’s Tower Ladder.Not only wasn’t the fireman thanked or assigned to a TL.The Dept tried to screw him out of two promotions and were successful on the third.One reason for no new trucks is there are only 3 makers of Fire equipment left.
Low IQ DEI at it's worst.
Maybe they should start a committee to study the problem. Then the CPD could put together a new unit or section headed by a new exempt position to liaison with them to solve the problems. At exempt meetings he/she could sit next to the commander of Wellness.
Keep voting for em !
Is it true when Nance holt was in charge of ems half or all the drugs expired in the ambu? And was suspended?
Do she live outside of Chicago
Amazing one would think a issue so non political has public safety would be covered by the media
Totally agree!!!!!!
The city that works!
The Mayor is the dumbest!
The should but they won’t.
Incompetence is the new Chicago normal. The Bears will be gone soon! I’ll bet they make their final announcement after elections are over.
The crap is going on everywhere so watch out not to step in it.
The whole place is screwed.
The city is trying to save a few dollars off of safety. All to give illegals more money.
Drive-by 7400 S. Central Bedford Park, Illinois Chicago truck repair. Of course not in Chicago friend of conehead owns it. Look at all of the city trucks over there firetruck trucks garbage truck trucks so many truck trucks huge contract wonder how much the kickback is going to conehead? Also, do you think you could give the business to a company that is actually inside the city of Chicago that pays the city taxes of course not outside the city, but they still name it Chicago truck repair. What a joke and we have no reporters to look at this either.
This would be true, so many junk police vehicles also because we have a totally incompetent mayor a governor that is totally clueless and delusional. Common denominator Democrats ruin everything.
Get your head out of your ass residency will never be taken away. It’s been talked about for 5060 years will never happen so clear your head.
The equipment on Chicago Fire never breaks down?
"Have them put an extra ladder on their duty belt with a camera.
4/04/2026 12:18:31 AM"
* Don't need TLs anyway. Pompier ladders are way to go. City will get Chinese ones on Amazon - snap right off like toothpicks from Guangdong.
* CFD maintenance gone and fleet busy painting communist slogans on plows. "Long March," "Great Leap Forward ," &c. "Abolish ICE." Original McCormick Place went up in '60s, huge blaze in terrible winter. Engine held back w/hasty steel stakes and all the chain they had to stop it sliding into lake on that "ICE."
* I I knew I'd hear about MABAS refusals. "Sorry, nothing runnin' that we can send."
* So those 1962 snorkels are 'way in back of the lot, and haven't bought anything since?
* Great comments, everyone, from our "Twilight Zone 2026." HAPPY EASTER. God bless all here & stay safe.
I'm imagining the dispatcher saying "Okay, Battalion Chief, but that tower's coming from the North Side."
Woah! He doesn’t just have a wife and kids, he has a BLACK wife and BLACK kids! And don’t you forget it! If you do, he’ll be sure to remind you next time he uses it to avoid a difficult question.
Chicago needs another big fire to put Coneheads name on as the most failed administration this city has ever seen. Lets go Brandon
Holt yea, Snelling no
Guy couldn’t get hired by CFD, so now he hopes they’re underfunded and their equipment sucks because he didn’t get the job. What a loser.
It's time to commission an $20,000,000 study.
SCC: OT
Do you think this could happen in Illinois with Pritzker and his fellow communists? YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT:
Go ahead, register you ARs and find out:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IjU_grUkVNU
CFD is worse off then us. Needed video from an ambulance after a murder. They had no list of equipment outfitted with cameras, admitted some aren't even hooked up to a hard drive and didnt know the video retention. They don't upload wirelessly like our in car video and run on hard drives that are sometimes found to be broken when they want to download.
Tissue?
time to put CFD on 12 hour shifts , hire majority from suburban departments as part time firefighter. No benefits. Many will take the job one or two days a week for the prestige of being one of Chicago's Bfravest. Eliminate the rank of Lt. on CFD
So, why is Holt allowed to live outside of the city?
The city's motor maintenance dept. can't fix anything .
"We're in the repair shop when you need us."
A BLACK wife and kids. Don't forget that.
New fire apparatus on the way if the mayor can put an “Abolish ICE” sign on the side of it
Better yet , put serial numbers on match sticks. Next crisis?
Chicago coined the phrase , promoted to their next level of incompetency
This is just more evidence that the city is failing financially. Most suburbs have nicer fire and police equipment than us. Just observe their July 4th parades!
On another note, according to the postcard on my refrigerator from the city, the blue cart recycling is supposed to be picked up on Fridays. Twice a month, except May and October which has (3) pick-ups. Needless to say, some months there have been no pickups at all. Shortly after Halloween of 2025, I called my Ward office to complain about why there was only (1) blue cart pick up for the entire month of October, when (3) are scheduled?
Of course, it was 10:45 am on a Friday, and I was greeted by an answering machine recording listing the office hours Mon-Fri. Guess what? Friday hours are 0900-Noon. It must be nice to have 1/2 days every Friday. I left a polite but firm message with my contact information. It was the following Tuesday before my call was returned. The caller's only concern was whether any of my neighbor's had also called to complain. I joked that the city must be unable to pay the private contractor or is late paying (like the mayor with his water bills) and that's why my recyclables are not being picked up with regularity! There was a long uncomfortable pause, and then the feeble apology from the Ward office staff member. Do you know what their solution to the problem was? The following day (Wednesday) my normal garbage collection day, the normal city garbage truck emptied my blue cart recyclable waste into the normal truck along with all the other garbage. (WHY THE FUCK DO I GO THROUGH THE TROUBLE TO RINSE OUT, AND SORT MY BLUE CART WASTE? Good Grief! What a bunch of worthless assholes!) The garbage truck then continued past all of my neighbor's full, and overflowing blue carts. So, I guess it's plausible deniability, unless you complain it didn't happen!
The whole point of my rant is to bring awareness about the financial instability of the city of Chicago. Can you say BANKRUPT?! I believe it is already underway just based on the inability of Chicago to provide BASIC city services that we are already paying for!
I'll leave you with this famous quote from Ernest Hemingway, "How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly!"
Bad time to have run your fleet into the ground the last 15 years.
https://www.investigatetv.com/2025/12/08/burnout-fire-truck-shortage-risking-lives-nationwide/
What’s this moron trying to tell us?
Everything sure gives an opposite appearance on CHICAGO FIRE
Fraud was committed in the bid process for CFD equipment, especially the airports
This is a scary reminder,
is chicago ready for a major incident???
More ambulances will decrease the the need for aging fire apparatus responding to ambulance EMS calls.
Actual calls for working fires have been way down numerically over the last 30plus years.Fact.Ambulance calls have gone up dramatically.In your lifetime the chances of you needing a ambulance are much greater.Blame the baby boomers getting old and cell phones and smoke detectors for early detection of smoke/fire.Also the increase of 1 room fires contained due to early detection.
Mick Belker Says:
Beware Pudhead Mauor Bj Johnson, he and Pritzker will let rhe city burn, just like Newsome and Bass did in Commiefornia..
Well since most cityn "leadership" aldercreatures are cps grads, can't read or do math, and are relying on their kindergarten graduation training, nothing good will happen. They're all too busy giving money to illegals.
He Quinn got the ideal for a Snorkel watching Chicago Pk Dist uses a cherry picker per CFD video 1958 or 62, depending source Quinn "invented" it.
There was 100 million appropriated in 2019 for engines and trucks. Then the pandemic hit. Production shut down. So what did Lightfoot do with the money ??
Our nation's form of government, a constitutional republic of sovereign states, with democracy being the method of electing/selecting those citizens to implement our form of government, is inherently vulnerable to the many duplicities well known to all.
The well known to all being the result of this means of communication.
Thus, nowhere to hide becomes the default to blatant lies even Baby Snooks would be embarassed to try.
Absurdities far greater than mere sarcasm and silliness can ever be applied to.
That’s not Bedford park.
Get your head out of your ass residency will never be taken away. It’s been talked about for 5060 years will never happen so clear your head.
With a mindset like yours yeah it won’t be, but if we city workers forced our unions to come together on this issue it could be. Literally everywhere that fought residency requirements in America have won those lawsuits.
I agree with you about the bankruptcy. Years ago only 1 percent of the city actually properly recycles. Also years ago waste management supposedly wanted out of their contact with the city. In certain areas of the city, waste management was responsible for picking up the recycling. I don’t know if it’s still like that nowadays. A decent gig on streets and sanitation is, if you have the seniority to be assigned to recycling. I only got to work on recycling a few times due to call offs. Walk down the alley past all black cans, trash next to the cans and majority of the blue cans are contaminated (you put a sticker on them than) so you can’t dump them into the recycling truck. I remember years ago being told by my driver, one of the days I was moved to recycling for the day, that I have to slow down I’m moving to fast. Some days I miss being a general labor for stress and sanitation.
Throw some more spaghetti at the wall until it sticks. You hate us cause you ain’t us.
I fail to see what residency has to do with old equipment. And the other brain dead answer to shortage of trucks is "move to Florida." These two suggestions for replacing these old trucks will be taken into consideration. Hey, maybe a "Peace March" would help.
Why don't you tell us who the republicans are that are running for Mayor, Aldermen, County Commissioners? NONE. I will vote for Bailey for Gov., but I'd rather have had a different choice.
"We're There When You Need Us...Unless Our Shit Won't Start."
She was Capt of the house when all the meds expired. Everyone got written up & got time except her.
Hello 911-I needs a fire company cause I dropped my tv remote control on the floor and can’t reach it, I means, I fell outta bed and I’m now on the floor.
Last newsy stat I was aware of:
Only 15% of recyclables collected were actually put to intended use.
85% ended up in landfills anyway.
How'z that for R.O.I.?
Yeah, good luck getting affordable home insurance in FL - a bunch of welfare queens assuming the Yankees will continue to bail them out from hurricane disasters, year after year.
Why? So the Mayor & Preckwinkle can grift even more?
The boomers are getting old ? Don’t look now but we are all getting older as each day passes. You are a true progressive.
Won’t the CFD need a TL is the Obama Bunker catches fire?
She's a member of a Country Club that has no Hills.
Burbank? If not Bedford?
Tower ladders have no business following ambulances and doing EMS runs all day long 20x a day all day. They aren’t designed for that. CFD needs to change that policy. Under no circumstance ever does a tower ladder go on EMS runs ever not ever.
The Ring Camera commissioner got a pass from LightLoafer to live in Olympia Fields because her son tragically died of gunfire in the city maybe 7-8yrs ago or so. So she claims to have “PTSD”now if she lives in the city.
Impossible all women answering the phones on the fire operations floor never triaging never questioning never challenging them just taking an order over the phone like a pizzeria clerk. Get rid of them hire all men who actually triage and use their training and CFD will be doing half the calls they do now literally 50% less.
Yes. It’s now an EMS dept. It’s 95% EMS. More ambulances, towers do not ever ever go on EMS runs and get better at triaging and deciding what’s an emergency and what isn’t at the 911 center the fire call takers are medically trained as paramedics let them use their training and skills instead of forcing them to behave like store clerks.
Any fire fan that hopes there are more or a big fire should have one in their own house first.The perspective on fires might change for any moron that wants a fire.
No.
The fire fans I know would have an experience that their wife can’t give them it would be their ultimate fantasy come true that’s how they feel about fires and firemen what a sick culture. Note: all “bugs” are hardcore fire fans.
CFD is on its final back up frequency and has been on it for many years now. No they aren’t ready all administrators are within 2-4yrs of retirement so the attitude is Kick The Can it’ll be someone else’s problem soon not mine let me just get to retirement. So what do they care? I’m still waiting for the ring camera incident to drop. But the one who possesses it has a nice cushy spot inside and a deal has been struck under the table to not release it.
Unfortunately under state law it is the patient that legally determines if it is an emergency until proven otherwise.As a Paramedic or Firefighter EMT you have to go on those calls just like garbage can fires and bogus fire alarms,etc.etc.It is justified by cross training pay.
10-4 squad 51
How many of hose kids are legit? Thought BJ would be too stupid to reproduce.
Firefighter EMT.Cross trained for firefighting and EMS runs.Paid for both roles.
bonehead seems to dumb to be a teacher
Left Chicago in the fall of 2021 after Mayor Beetlejuice tried to force me to put an experimental jab into my body. After an unsuccessful fight where so many bent a knee I decided it was best to put the CFD and Chicago in my past. I left that tyrannical broke state, city, county for Tennessee where I have found a most pleasant way of life which much opportunity. No racism, no division, and less thieves. Way too many thieves with their hands in the cookie jars in Shitcago and crook county. No way to afford expensive apparatus when there is no money left. Raise some more taxes! When are the folks gonna wake up and find out they been duped by the wonderful unions and city politicians which have sold them off. Those coffers have been emptied. One day your 600-750K home in Edison Park wont be worth that and you'll be stuck living in hell with a pension system doomed to go bust. Nah, that will never happen. Time will tell!
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