No Brakes!
CFD is short working equipment and their pool rides are as bad as ours:
These things weigh between ten and twenty tons including a full water tank. That's a lot of momentum with zero brakes to be flying around city streets.
Labels: fire fighters
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
88 Comments:
Wild
Feeding ghetto lottery.
Cops or firemen hit and kill people, city settles.
Trial lawyers get 1/3, lawyers kick 1/3 of their money to democrats. We fund the battle against us.
Those spares should be in a museum. Some are almost 30 years old.
Democrat voter here...
Issues such as LGBTEDRSET and Climate Change should be addressed first. City trucks/cars should be looked into as that ..." be flying around city streets." at unsafe speeds should hold drivers accountable first.
DEI promotions on Fire and the police dept.
What do you expect from the best and the brightest?
Our dumb bastards can't even get hired in Detroit.
Could you just imagine if they crashed into a short school bus full of "future democrat politicians" and killed them all?
It would bankrupt the city.
Operating on a budget that is about 8%(yes eight %) of the CPS budget, and are those Engine Co door decals just pieces of tape?
Assault fire apparatus - we need "common sense laws" for the removal all fire apparatus! Or, in the truckers' world - someone forgot to do their pre-trip inspection.
Hope the firefighters are OK. But hope the building owner sues the shit out of the City for putting faulty, unmaintained equipment out on the street....
Man, some guys will do anything to schedule an appointment with Dr. Summeroff.
Oh, /Why/ are they in such a hurry, where's the fire? Oh, /wait/.
Wheels falling rotting off, no brakes,...
Vote democrat for more.
Yikes
OT
Why is there an 06 Sgt in 019 1W who downs 4 beat cars every night on burglary missions when theres no officers to man beats to begin with?
Yes sarge AS is scamming by getting unlimites ot and starting this culture of supervisors working half tours including Lts. Time for IA to look into this.
I hope everyone went to the hospital to get checked out.
it’s ok don’t be alarmed didn’t you guys just post that battalion chiefs were driving EV Mustangs around now ?
This city is so inept corrupt and ass backwards this isn't the first incident with spare rigs. Hey assholes(mayor fire comm) who much money was siphon for migrants and you how hard did you try to insure safety of equipment ms ring camera?
The city has their priorities. Fireman safety is not one of them.
And you think you'll get your pension. Hardy har har
but the city hired that minority run jiffy lube to take care of those trucks
That payout is going to cost more than if they just bought a new engine
https://abc7chicago.com/cfd-chicago-fire-dept-equipment-old/1319474/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIcp8VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHR9dhmd-5v2DybSBgwiUGmd9hA93El3YocOTvkaQG1-BkrtYdx5d2Ica1Q_aem_Lu-jEvwFUuQXfoStbKtp9w
Been getting mine for quite a while. Now go make my latte with no- foam.
Sad to say, it's all about salaries, benefits, pensions and graft! Infrastructure and service to the taxpaying citizen comes last!
I remember taking a prisoner down the Kennedy to the lock up in 001 in an old diesel pool wagon. When we hit 45 MPH the front tires started jumping off the roadway like we were on a dune buggy trail. Pooched it down there and back doing 35 and then hid under a tree the rest of the tour.
As long as Conehead has his new shiny tahoes, we’re good
Muscle memory that used to be a lounge/bar...
This is the result of the CFD maintenance shops being incorporated into the department of fleet management This type of incident NEVER occurred when the CFD had control of their own shops. Same is true of the CPD motor maintenance division. The focus at fleet management is the snow plows and garbage trucks and fuck the CPD, CFD rolling stock.
It's only a matter of time before the attorney's bar sees a booming new business of suing the Fire Department for these crashes.
The city's motor maintence is staffed mostly by unskilled ally mechanics.
Quit your bitchin’ sissy and answer the calls and do your job.
A fire truck doesn't need brakes...they only slow you down!
Let's go Brandon!
This is due to DEI hiring of fleet management
Why you ask….because that’s the way it is.
DEI is coming to roost at CFD
This mayor is just a Fkn POS, he does not care about this city or anyone who lives in it
Thankfully no one was seriously injured. Firefighters or civilians.
This has DEI written all over it.
Not to worry!
As long as you can see the brake fluid leaking, you are OK.
And we filled the reservoir all the way to the top~!
Relax! Our beloved Conehead's SUV is safe! After all, isn't that all that counts? Even with all the miles he puts on sneaking to his lady friend's suburban digs.
Shit, the driver could have stopped his truck with a ward office.
Yes, we do fund that battle against ourselves. On a much grander scale, the waste and fraud at USAID uncovered by DOGE proves your assertion. Much of our tax dollars are going to push the leftist agenda world wide.
It would actually save us money in the long run.
Right across 103rd? Marcus Garvey school! Chicago missed a shitstorm with this one!!
We truly are a third world shithole.
Wish ya'll rear ended my squad :(
awww,,,what's da matter,,, you diddin get picked to go on a mission?
Wonderful. Hey conehead keep giving our tax money to illegals.
and just like a west side bus accident,,,,, 50 people showed up at the emergency room claiming they were in the building that was hit
Who cares about the CFD. Look at CPDs crap ass equipment. What happens to all the grant money the CPD is awarded? Take a deep dive into that and I am sure you’ll see the money not being applied to what it was won for.
How about the $300,000+ Marine unit dive truck that took 3 1/2 years to build. It has been in the shop twice since it arrived. Once for leaks through the roof and now for oil leaks. It has been here for 6 months and has spent 4+ in the Shop and currently still there. Additionally there is a million plus boat that has sat in dry dock for 3 years and another that was suppose to be refurbished but 2FM waited so long and kept fucking up that they lost the $800,000 grant that was awarded to refurbish it. Money gone.
Thank god I retired and don’t have to deal with that nonsense anymore.
This story is from NINE YEARS AGO when Cuck Goudie actually did something resembling his job.
NFPA Standards:
15+ years - Remove from front line service
25+ years - Remove from service, PERIOD.
In 2016, they were still using equipment that was 31 years old.
Any bets it's still on the job at 40?
I noticed that too.
Unit number is done in white duct tape. (can't afford Scotchlite)
City government has bankrupted the city beyond what citizens can pay. So citizens suffer. Not them though....
Because fixed post and missions are more important than answering jobs, are you new? Early ducks for thee but not for me, again I ask are you new?
CFD needs a D.O.G.E inspection. Where the heel is all the money going to?
One firefighter hospitalized. The remaining firefighters went to an urgent care facility on 111th Street suffering from dehydration and exhaustion getting plenty of 12 once infusions and shots of medicine until closing time.
I’d be ok with that.
Take the test, pass the test, and then you can tell me what to do! So, until then, answer your calls and take that piercing out of your nose.
If this was a private truck without a valid inspection sticker and faulty brakes, the owner operator would receive thousands of dollars of fines and be put on notice for an expensive mechanical inspections of the fleet. And once the insurance company got hold of this information, expect insurance premiums to skyrocket. I'm grateful the City of Chicago can skirt the vehicle safety laws written by government for the little guys.
CFD sounds like a rouge organization. Time to put the organization under a federal Consent Decree Monitor. Appoint a federal judge, some slick U.S. prosecuting attorneys and a gaggle of federal fire marshals to oversee the day to day operations. The overseers can find things wrong, publish it in their annual report justifying the need for more regulations, more unnecessary oversight strangling common sense life saving day to day operations. Powers granted to an unwarranted bureaucracy with its potential revenue streams for each monitor is priority #1 for this out of control municipal agency and public safety comes second in a ranked order for the public.
Will some intrepid reporter sneak around the mayor's army of securities insulating him from the public and ask Mr mayor to comment on the threat to public safety in communities of color given both the reliability and dependability of these broken down rigs putting the driving public at risk. The motto of CFD is "We are there when you need us." Communities are not served by some broke as hoop-dee pumper truck.
It would be intersting to see if a gps tracker(not an air tag), were placed under his suv to see where he really travels to,
Put the Fire Commissioner under oath and affirmation in a City Council hearing to unmask the root causes of dilapidated fire apparatuses and identify responsible apparatchiks. Assemble the city's Elders or council members in a blue ribbon panel to investigate this matter complete with future employment referrals from each ward. Appoint a special counsel or connected law firm to investigate broken down fire rides, provide a comprehensive report on tire inflation and review air horn blowing policies complete with Venn Diaphragms in 12 months.
Aren't the air brakes on that designed to apply (stop the thing) on failed air? Trains and heavy equipment work like that, won't move until air is pumped up, they grind to a stop the air is lost. Helps with idyit-proofing, since pumping the brakes (that depletes the air, unlike on a hydraulic braked car or light truck) won't disable all braking.
Los Angeles has the highest tax rates in the country. Their democrat leadership compromised public safety with broken down trucks and dry fire hydrants despite being a stone's throw away from an enormous body of water, the Pacific Ocean.
Chicago too is taxed in oblivion too. Your telling me that we cannot afford or have raised awareness of an aging fleet of first responder chariots. Where is the fire leadership? No one has figured this out. Lots of money devoted to other than Americans but not for critical fire equipment.
GFY lib
They'll find a way to blame the engineer for this crash.
Go hang upside down in some cave where the other bat shit is. Hold the drivers accountable for pieces of shit equipment?? "Flying around the streets", for a simpleton like you, means they are going to a call to save people's lives or property and every second counts. Nonfunctioning brakes are not the fault of the driver, numbskull.
I’m sure you’re a go gettin’ hard charger, op
Does CPD have any box caprices left? Might as well use those since cfd is using 35 year old equipment
That’s not duct tape, it’s too expensive. That’s just a couple layers of medical adhesive tape. That spare is slightly newer than my assigned rig.
Apparatus purchasing and repairs are handled by 2FM, Fleet and Facikity Management, which I think is still run on the ancient and time honored “don’t want nobody nobody sent” program.
Yes your point is true, but you must have good brake linings and drums to make the brake system work! All the air pressure in the world won’t stop the truck without proper parts behind the tires and wheels. Worn linings act like grease ....
Yet, the majority of city employees voted him in.
And the majority of city employees, including cops and firefighters, voted for the same old same old, as usual!
I'd take a box chevy over these bullshit SUV's any day of the week.
Democrat Politicians of Chicagoland skimmed so much money off the contracts that the cupboard is bare. Want to know where all that allotted Taxpayers dollars went ? Look in their (and their family members) bank accounts and investment properties.
Sometimes it's hard to detect sarcasm, but when it's laid on this thick, I'm shocked that multiple people still take the bait. All posts that start with "Democrat voter here..." are someone's attempt at a joke, pretending to represent the thoughts of liberals. No matter how accurate those pretend liberal beliefs are, you're not "giving a liberal a piece of your mind" when you respond angrily. All you're doing is making yourself look stupid.
Here's a little secret I learned from my time as a sergeant: the 06 sergeant isn't randomly deciding to hold cars down on burglary missions. They were instructed to do so by a lieutenant, most likely at the direction of the commander, most likely because there is a burglary problem in the district. That's probably the whole reason there's even an 06 sergeant to begin with. Hope this helps.
They tried, but the ambulances broke down on the way.
You'd be dead. Good thing you were in your hole.
Applying brakes does no good if the brakes are no good. Also, something that is old and improperly maintained won't necessarily work as designed when needed.
I used to see a really nice white one by 39th and Wood when the detectives were occupying it. This was years after the box Chevy was replaced. Maybe that one is still around.
If non functional vehicle/brakes why operate and endanger more people?
HOLT=Disaster Get rid of her and the jocker She is poisoning the fire dept
City motor maintenance is bottom of the pile. Lucky to get a car back with oil in it. Harrison & kedzie has got to be the worst down cars for the same issue repeatedly. Zero accountability.
You mean Dr. Anita
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