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Uploaded by on Aug 3, 2009

Chicago Fire Department Truck 3 and Engine 42 respond to an alarm.

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  • what kind of trucks are these?

  • @thefirefighter1005

    Engine 42 is a 2005 Spartan Gladiator Crimson 1500/500 and Truck 3 is a 2002 Pierce Dash 100" Rear Mount.

  • why green lights?

  • @habbsterr

    All engine and truck companies in the department have at least one green warning light mounted on the front right of the vehicle, directly opposite a corresponding red light. Modeled off of the marker lights used on ships (where a red light is used to mark the port, of left side of the vessel, while a green light is used to mark the starboard, or right side), the system was thought up by Albert Goodrich, who became fire commissioner in 1927.

  • @habbsterr

    His family owned a steamship line, and he took the lighting idea from his experience there. Though not especially useful in firefighting (the marker lights' purpose in the nautical world is to help ships pass each other at night or in foggy weather) it has nonetheless stuck, and is a distinctive feature of the city's engines and trucks.

  • @habbsterr

    The tradition has since been expanded to cover the lights on the front of firehouses (again with a red light on the station's left and a green one on the right), just as red and green lights are used to mark slips and passages through breakwaters for boats.

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  • @GRIMREAPER76IA how'd u knw tht

  • @IanA223 why EQ2B, why not real Q? i mean, the real Q sounds much better!

  • @GRIMREAPER76IA MY DADS on the chicago fire dept its not for warning its a tradition to have a green light

  • @habbsterr My dads on the chicago fire dept. He said the reason why we have the green light because its the chicago fire departments tradition to have a green light on the side of tower ladders trucks engines squads and alot of rigs in our city And those are Federal signal viewpoint lights . and its also a tradition to have the AWSOME Federal signal eq2b siren

  • @BigT58609 Batavia IL has them too

  • @AlcoFan2010 Love those really wished they used those too

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