Nice Fire Truck Conehead
So not only are firehouses in Englewood operating without any....fire trucks....the ones that are serving Chicago, aren't being maintained very well:
No idea what the CFD budget looks like for maintenance, but we're sure Conehead spent it on illegal Venezuelans or hair gel. Hopefully, they don't try to blame the driver for the equipment they give him to drive.
We aren't sure of the technical terms, but the entire wheel hub (?) rusted through so the lug nuts and bolt disc (?) remained on the truck while the tire went on it's merry way smashing into parked cars.
This is a Tower Ladder, one of maybe six in the entire city, so if you're in anything taller than three stories, your life just got a little more statistically dangerous.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
74 Comments:
That coulda kilt a dem-o-crat.
20 million would have went to his "play" family.
Had the experience! Was working in 024 and just picked up the Fld. Lt. who wanted to take a ride. While in the lot, an in progress call in the area of Pratt & Ridge came over. The Lt said take that in. Pulled out of the lot and got half way down Schreiber when the squad came to an abrupt halt flinging us forward, almost through the windshield. The Lt said what the F did you hit? We got out of the car to see the rf tire sailing w/b on Schreiber!! We checked the lot & street, no potholes or items hit. If we went to that in progress call we would have been flying up Ridge and probably be really injured as in those days nobody used seat belts. The wheel and brake drum just broke off of the axle. I had been driving this squad all day, and there was no front noise at any time to indicate any front end problems. I am glad I wasn’t on LSD or an expressway. Be careful & stay safe.
There are so many apparatuses in the shop we may have to borrow some of the horse & buggys from fire museums.
We need a forensic audit to see how much money is being blown on taking care of migrants who nobody wants here except for Democrats who brought them here to change the elections so the Democrats will always win every election. Also all the useless social programs that target certain groups or causes in order to buy votes.
The ladder does not work any longer on those units anyway, just transport for members to get from place to place. A pitiful shame.
I remember driving a few wagons around that would start jumping all over the place when you got over 40 mph.
That rim had to be very old or was exposed to salt water continously.
Priorities son. Priorities.
And no contract for 3 years
Come January, you can enjoy being left behind by the rest of the country, Cook County! Good luck navigating the rest of your term, “ mayor”, while the Feds let you fail. I sense a midnight flight to Venezuela…
Chicago values....None.
Driver will probably be piss tested and brought up on charges for striking another vehicle.
The owner of the parked car will wait at least a year to get reimbursed from the city and the city won't even pay the whole amount. The city doesn't even care about the safety of its employees. Chicago is a disaster.
Tower ladders are huge. They are specifically made to reach tall buildings and deliver an elevated master stream (high volume of water) from a point of vantage. Rather than maintain this piece of equipment for what it was BUILT for, the city made the decision decades ago to run them around the streets on ambulance assist runs like any other piece of equipment.
the dei mechanic said he was ''fittin to fix dat"
This is what you get when most of the city budget is spent on salaries, benefits and pensions! The scraps are left to pay for actual services!
Giving more to illegals would solve this....
Nothing but the best for the citizens of chi-town
Cone shathead's admin sings the wheels on thr truck go round and round.
Conehead does not GAF. Why would he? He’s collecting a nice salary and has black chilruns and black wife on the wessside. He has more pressing matters on his mind such as the upcoming water bill.
Can the mayor be sued for stealing, I mean spending tax money for illegals when fire trucks across the city are all broken?
Side note:
The city is rolling us into a new technology called ZeroEyes. It’s an AI program on our PODs that detects firearms displayed on the public way. It’s live in a few pilot program districts. We should find out how much the city is spending on this and whose connected family member or retired boss is working for them.
These guys sitting around fucking off all day in the fire house couldn't have seen that or did and didn't give a fuck.
Don't agree. Driver drove a unsafe vehicle. Driver should have taken it out of service and deserves a ticket. Something like that was pretty obvious.
The city garage mechanics are bad. About the same as a "Jiffy Lube" worker.
Leave it to a democRat...
Makes me sick.
This pic looks like something you’d see in Haiti or Somalia or some third world shit hole like that. For the amount of taxes we pay here you’d expect state of the art equipment. This shit is subpar. Embarrassing!
What utter insanity within the CFD. Where is the public outcry by senior leadership as to the status and state of Departmental critical equipment and maintenance of said equipment. Is Nance-Holt in a race with Snelling to see which one is the bigger fool within the city administration besides the biggest fool - Conehead.
It ain't a money problem, it's a knowledge problem.
I believe the proper technical term is "Mongolian Cluster Fuck".
A sure sign of things to come as Chicago inches closer to bankruptcy, retire now and at least receive a small portion of your pension before it is gone.
No one's talking about it so here it is. The other day an email came around about a $2,500 lump sum for the flsa. Nothing appears supposedly on the 7th. Does anybody know what that's about if it's bullshit from the city or if it's from that lawsuit that was launched a couple of years ago cuz the fop doesn't know s hit, or are saying anything about it?
When does the Gofund Me start?
Was the truck on their way to DEI training?
Why not both!
Ur an idiot. I got on the job in 86. Nineteen that is moron. Cars were in such shit shape some had rotted out on the passenger side that M maintainenence would put a piece of aluminum on the floor to keep your foot from falling through. These were the pieces of shit we were given to drive. I wouldn't cut anyone a ticket for driving one of these pieces of shit. A know it all and future boss like yourself is going to say u would down the car due to it being unsafe. Yes , someone else tried that. You were told to down the car and go out on foot. This was in the Second District. When the area was surrounded by The Taylor Homes and Ida B. Wells. You're a no time on the job genius. I'm sure your guy told you your next on the list. Future great boss....
I'm sure majestic tire on Cicero could hook them up. Not far from the station either
Don’t they wash their equipment daily to prevent rusting? I’m on the Board of a volunteer fire department and our guys maintain the equipment religiously. We just bought a pumper truck and it cost $800,000! A ladder truck is $1,500,000. How old is the equipment there? Doesn’t the state of Illinois have laws about how old those trucks can be? The state of NC certainly does.
Of course there will be about fifty other people getting paid who claim to have been injured in this incident.
There are a lot of rigs that look like that all over the city.
We have enough for 30,000 hair cuts and facials. Don’t think for one minute that he is paying out of his pocket. Hell, he don’t pay his water bills. His thinking is that he HAS to look good because he is the head of Chicago so the city should pay for his treatments. Maybe Chuck Gouda and the I-team can do an audit all the way back to when he was a Cook County Commissioner. Who paid then.
I did not see the wheel but will say internal corrosion or hairline cracks are very difficult to detect
Guessing that some fire equipment operates in the edge of load limits and hitting endless potholes shortens the service life.
And purchasing replacements from an alderman's son in law can be costly...
We tax payers need to file a law suit against the state of Illinois and city of Chicago for using our tax money for illegal activities without our consent
I remember seeing that piece at the McCormick Place fire in '67.
Was she a light foot body guard, what ever happened to her criminal cases?
Marn’i Washington a FEMA supervisor told her relief staff to skip Trump supporter houses.
If this is the same woman?
In 2019 she was a cop on Lightfoot’s Chicago security detail charged with domestic battery twice.
Was she given a FEMA job & an apostrophe in her name to get her out of dodge?
We should probly revert to horse drawn wagons at this point.
What’s the point of it if they didnt want police to respond to legit shots fired because the liberals said SS was “racist?” So they want police to respond to guns displayed? Yeah, “ Hard pass, 19-P” is what officers should be saying.
I was once able to “deliver an elevated master stream” but these days the prostate says “Whoa! Not so fast”.
Looks like an unsafe vehicle
And out of curiosity… Can someone even moderately mechanically inclined check the date code (DOT date of manufacture code) on that tire? Or take a picture of it and send it here to the blog? I’d be willing to bet that thing has been “expired” for several years.
Conehead had money to fix cfd equipment but he used it to fly to several states to campaign for harris. And that’s after he had no fly for city employees. I guess now he will create a mgr position to look into these matters as he is clueless in doing his duties. God help us …
The inside tire is flat, may have stressed the outside tire a we bit.
Did you fight to get more ambulances?If not,quit whining about using your Firefighter/emergency medical technician skills for which you get paid for both.
It was not lug nuts that came off.It was corrosion that caused metal fatique that caused it to fracture or just long term metal stress.Old rig that met exceeded the life span from overuse.The city is reactive,not proactive.Bring in more migrants and take care of them.How has that been working?
Not true. If the ladder is not in service the rig is not in service. Turns out that while fire and police don't have a hiring freeze and still get overtime, 2FM is down to two shifts and no overtime so not enough work is getting done.
There's a lot of twisting force on those dual rear suspensions when they go around turns and such.
Lori Lightfoot got herself a haircut during the Covid lockdown and stated that ‘she’s the face of the city.’
I won’t be surprised. That apostrophe helps kick the DEI up a notch or two, don’t cha think?
Fuck the pre-tour vehicle inspection “all appears normal “ bullshit
Write it all up not that it’s gonna get fixed but cya
The DOT code of 3023 is clearly visible. This code means the tire was manufactured the week of 24-Jul-2023.
Isn’t the commissioner of Fleet a chick?
What does the tire dot number have anything to do with the cracked rim. Two different things . Stop talking like you know !
Do you think firefighters in Englewood or West Side have free time to wash those rigs "religiously "?
A few weeks ago CFD union talked about it
30th week of 2023 so about the middle of June 2023
Disgraceful.
She is from Oakland, CA. No mention of ever being a cop anywhere
that tire should say ''Goodyear had a bad day"
The wheels are falling off the cart.
It’s a good thing all the over payed commissioners and deputy commissioners in charge of fleet are still getting paid for doing nothing
CPDP.co still has Marni listed as a police officer, dob 1969. Don't know if it is the same one or how recently the data was updated, but it seems to have a lot of info that seem pretty much overreach.
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Maybe the city can save money by not giving everyone in a unit brand new take home cars. Spend that cash fixin fire trucks instead
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