Chicago Fire Department Truck 3 Responding

[EvanM2007]

OMG get a REAL Q!!!!

[EpicD1M3]

@EvanM2007 They are not aloud to use real Federal Q's because of the noise that bounces off of the buildings. Same reason why they can not use them in New York.

[juliuschtel]

the siren are beuatiful

[MATTYMO2014]

great shot for someone with a newbie camera you should do this more often

[R426Winnipeg]

LOL, "Sarah are you waving at the fire truck??"

[lb012006]

I love Chicago and all the protection we have it is great :D

[Prazjum]

Wish they could run a real Q

[FreedomHigh4]

It's a tradition for CFD trucks to have green lights on one side...It was originally based on the concept of green and red lights on the sides of ships and it's stuck ever since on CFD trucks.

[Nachor4]

You can see the Green/Red lights also on the bay doors at every firehouse in Chicago.

[gta4lc]

Whats with the woman in the background yelling "There's a fire oh no" really she's never seen a fire truck before

[Angerfist2]

that electric Q sounds pretty good

[adcnortty]

Who Cares what color lights they are......That is one bad ass truck

[GTARotator]

Chicago paint scheme is epic

[MultiMonster69]

gotta be my fav big city dept. sirens lights rigs sirens everythin

[fdcadet]

im not sure about other area but in the chicago land area green strobe lights signify command and since the officer of the apparatus sits on the right side there are green lights on the right side of the apparatus

[cfd11236]

@fdcadet 100% incorrect. An old comissioner was a former navy man and brought the green/red light tradition to the CFD.

[bobcats330]

@cfd11236 i heard it was to honor fallen firefighters???is that not true???

[bobcats330]

@cfd11236 i heard it was to honor fallen firefighters, is that not true??? is the siren on that truck a Fed Sig EQ2B

[cfd11236]

@bobcats330 no, its not to honor fallen firefighters, and yes it is an EQ2B.

[bobcats330]

@cfd11236 ok thanks. thought it was eq

[travis3113]

Black and Red paint looks beautiful

[MasterJediKyleKatarn]

@travis3113 Matchbox makes a Pierce Dash fire truck. Including a Red with Black version but it's not a Chicago truck.

[Dauphinpilot]

where's the air horns?????

[tspragg1]

@Dauphinpilot no need, there was no body in the way

[aidankateri]

Chicago Fire Department Truck 3 Responds To A Call

TAKE IT IN TRUCK 3!

Truck 3 Going Out On A Run

[CHINKZRTHECOOLEST]

federal signal E-Q2B

[jtoatoktoe]

maybe a timberwolf siren? sounds different than a q

[CTFD13]

EQ2B

[firefighter7494]

eq sounds like a sick duck

[MultiMonster69]

i love the lights on CFD. im in chicage all the time

[mendylitz]

Green LED's on a fire truck .

[911caddy]

mendylitz , that is part of CFD's history. They have been using geen (on the officers front side only) since at least the mid 1950's.

[mendylitz]

Nice. I think it looks really cool . It breaks up all the red

[KVFDbyrd252]

@mendylitz i think its like a boat, green on the right meaning you can pass on that side, and red on the left saying don't pass? put here in PA green means command post, we have one on our heavy rescue for our command post.

[CTFD13]

an old chief was a sailor, so he put the green on the right side, red on the left, and its now a tradition. nothing about passing or not passing.

[VFVFCo68]

@mendylitz The green is a culture thing that Chicago does.

[anslowp1]

@mendylitz Chicago (and many of the surrounding 'burbs) put green lights on the rigs. I'm not sure of the guy's name, but I read that one of the early Chiefs had naval or shipping experience and brought the green navigation light to the rigs from that background.

[ozzyr333]

@mendylitz green means they have a paramedic on board

[mondo78]

@mendylitz A unique feature on the apparatus of the CFD is the green emergency light that is typically found on the right front of the apparatus, in addition to the red light on the left front. This tradition dates back to the 1930s when Fire Commissioner Goodrich, whose family operated Goodrich Transit Company, adopted the port and starboard maritime light scheme for all apparatus and firehouses.

[LoL0assasinspeet]

@mendylitz AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAA

[MATTYMO2014]

@mendylitz the only reason that it is green is because of the glare of the camera the camera was not in full focus therefor the color came out to be green

[jazzbutterworth]

@MATTYMO2014 Those lights ARE green.

[MATTYMO2014]

@jazzbutterworth prove it to me then take a video of the light cap with out the light moving or flashing then i will believe you

[jazzbutterworth]

@MATTYMO2014 I don't live anywhere near Chicago, but ask someone that does & they will say the same thing.  Ask "rykember11". I think he may live there, but for sure he has gotten lots of clips from there. He knows almost everything. He could answer your question.

[camhesse1]

@MATTYMO2014 go to the chicago fire department websites and stuff and they will say that it is a GREEN light not blue or whatever

[mathiastheok]

@mendylitz Yeah lots of studies coming out about visibility... one says red and amber on freeways are best, one says red and blue is most visible...then another says red, yellow and green blah blah blah....

[Dauphinpilot]

No air horns??? Come on, I'd blast em' like there's no tomorrow!!!

[smc1412]

you sure have seen some funny toys then

[greenyaker]

Sounds kind of like a toy.

[firefighter1229]

thats the biggest station in chicago. they even have a racquet ball court.

[moneyman237952]

do you know where this is?

[firefighter1229]

it is at the headquarters station at w illinois street and n dearborn street in chicago, illinois

[moneyman237952]

oh ok cool i've never seen one that big before. The ones I see are small

[343FirNaTine]

gay fake q

[DarkSanctumStudios]

how is that fake Q?????

[jao216]

not fake or gay at all...it made by federal signal also...eq2b...its a nice siren

[343FirNaTine]

no, eq2b sounds like real qs. this is a crappiest model they have. a model of which i don't know the name. so therefore, it is shit.

[jao216]

check out: Federal EQ2B on Belvedere fire co HazMat truck 12-24-08..sounds exactly the same

[cfd95264436]

i would throw eng 54 and truck 20 on the list of the busiest too.

[51ENGINE51]

Just wondering? what is the busiest station in chicago?

[cfd11236]

its usually between Eng 116, 117, 55, and 95

[gatekeeper7777777]

the bisseest is engen 18

[51ENGINE51]

o ok cool thanks

[ColumbusFire14]

Oh okay, yeah it was confusing. I'm glad I know now because the Columbus Division of Fire uses Red and White lights

[ColumbusFire14]

Don't get me wrong, I love the Chicago Fire Department, I'm just not feeling the green lights on the trucks

Whats that about?

[FDNYSQUAD252]

I asked a guy that once and he said because 99.9% of their guys are irish, lol I thought they were all scottish, lol irish, scottish same kinda fireman. I do not know if that was true, but that is something we would do if we though of it.

[ColumbusFire14]

Lol I was wondering, It seemed weird but since you said the Irish thing I don't look at it as weird anymore

lol

[LA29PM]

You guys keep busy in Columbus? What's your busiest Company there? jobs per year? I was looking at this LAFD video house #9 They run 55 jobs a day? All medical calls. I do not think that would be a fun house to be at. I thought we run on a lot of that crap, but I guess that's all they do there. We have a choice, well our officer has a choice if we go or not. Depends on where the job is at and if they really need us there to stand around and look stupid.

[ColumbusFire14]

Yeah we do, lol

I think our busiest Company is Engine 15 in Battalion-4, but our busiest Station is Station 2/3 downtown, it is the busiest station in the USA in 2001, but yeah we get too many EMS runs a day, about 4 or 5 Fire calls a day depending on the weather.lol

[chicago4996]

the green lights are like the ones on ships. green on starbard, and red on port side.

[upsguy03]

The green light is a tradition dating way back. One of the original fire chiefs had been a ship captain and felt that it would be easier to spot fire stations at night if they used the same lighting as on a ship. One side has green lights and the other red.

They soon placed them on the trucks as well. It is a common misunderstanding that it is because the majority of firefighters were Irish.

[VirtuaLord27]

I have respect for anyone who can maneuver that thing through those city streets. Plus you got the people who don't even bother to move, making it even harder.

[mpfeiff22]

what station is this?

[rmanrod]

any firefighters out there. Excuss my ignorance but why Firefighters (specially NY and Chicago) are associated with Irish traditions/people?

[jtoatoktoe]

I think a lot of them are multi generation, their kids do it and so on and so on. Family Traditions

[2279kelly]

ugh eq2b...........enough said

[r4444r]

I love Q's,electrical Q's sound alright.But that is one stupid lady if that was a Q it would have blown her fucking ear drums out.

[mpfd131]

well the sirens are same as my old fire engine

[mpfd131]

cool sirens ther basicly the same as my fire dept

[pvtbthompson]

that q sounds like shit iv heard better q sirens on toy fire trucks

[firefrenzy669]

i know it sounds lame but they don't need real Q's in the city. although it would be nice.

[jtoatoktoe]

could be the timberwolf? I don't think its a federal q

[RDG484]

It's an eQ-2b, a.k.a the electronic Q. Real Q's are too loud for Chicago, as they are in New York and many other places. So you get the Q sound (somewhat) but at lower decibels.

[343FirNaTine]

this isn't the eq2b, it's a piece of shit, cheap model from federal signal.

[firerescue38]

No its the EQ2B from Federal Signal. I know the sound anywhere, the dept next to ours runs EQ's on just about all their rigs.

[bnsf4]

evry unit except for spares have the eq2b EVERY unit!

[drumminkid67]

yea the reason they have electrical Q's is because their in the city and the Q2b for instance is too loud and with the close proximity buildings it creates an echo and at full blast could break windows FDNY has banned the Federal Q's because of that some trucks in FDNY have normal Q's but most use electrical sirens but Chicago wants to at least have something close to a real Q so it sounds like a good old fashion fire truck so thats why its electrical

[1AmericanAirlines1]

Sounds just like a PA-5 , is it ?

[fdwt994]

HATE THE SIRENS. Fake Q's sound like crap and don't reach as far as the mechanical ones.

[alexandermakrianis]

You're right

[spucel8823]

Great video!!!

[JPOC226]

E-one custom Typhoon by Federal Signal Corp.

[maarssen512]

love the sirenes