Chicago Fire Department Truck 3
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hey is that the same siren as FDNY trucks
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CFD colors
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this is station 1,it only has 1 engine and a truck company and a medic.The rest are just civil service units.nice vid
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the real one is to loud major citys dont use them to much noise already
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agreed, if u want a q get a real Q, the EQ sounds gay
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Yes! It's beautiful. :D
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man i would really love to get on chicago fire someday, espically in the downtown area......chicago is a good looking city
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red and green are chicago fire dept colors
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hmmm, wow, thats interesting, i never would've had a clue, thanks GRIMREAPER
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can anyone tell me...whats up with the green lights on chicago fire trucks?
firemonkey1097 2 years ago
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.
GRIMREAPER76IA 2 years ago
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.
GRIMREAPER76IA 2 years ago
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.
GRIMREAPER76IA 2 years ago
What engine is housed with Truck 3?
firepower782 4 years ago
Engine 42.
GRIMREAPER76IA 4 years ago