This weeks Monday Morning Shoutout goes to ChicagoFD.org. The site is very well done and includes a lot of history of the Chicago Fire Department.
The site is described as: Welcome to the ChicagoCivilDefense.org – Fire & Rescue Unit / E.P.D.S. Website. Dedicated to Robert J.Quinn, Fire Commissioner / Acting Director, and ALL former members of the Chicago Civil Defense & the Chicago Fire Department.
You could spend hours on this site watching their videos, looking at pictures, and learning about the Chicago FD. You can also listen to live dispatch.
Here is something you don’t hear everyday…
Battalion 19 at a working fire on 9/16/2010 at approx 05:50 hrs. calls Englewood to report Squad 5 picking up and they are refusing. Battalion 19 orders the Office to send in a Deputy (2-2-5) because he has a disorderly Squad Co. Listen to the audio here
Chicago Fire Department RESCUE ME
This is a great video that shows hard work at getting brother firefighters out of harms way. What I found amazing was how the first guy who was rescued then stayed on the ladder and helped rescue the next guy.
Watch all of ChicagoFD.org’s videos on youtube here
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Bless the guy for wanting to stay and help, but it would probably be smarter to let one of the 30+ other guys who are outside and fresh to get up there and do their part.
Amazing to the lack of SCBAs in evidence-but that was the culture.
Yes, very true John…although I am fairly certain that no one was pulling him off the ladder. I thought it was wild how he just hopped the ladder from one window to another. Certainly some heroics going on in the whole event pulling those guys out of those upper windows.