Like the CFD, the FIP used a consistent shop numbering series to keep track of their vehicles. Coincidentally, they too used a B- prefix.
Shop # | Year | Make/Model | Original Assignment | Second Assignment | Notes | Image Links |
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B-none | 1907 | Woods Electric | Patrol 1 | Not accepted | ||
B-none | 1909 | Plymouth | Patrol 3 | |||
B-none | 1909 | Plymouth | Patrol 6 | |||
B-none | 1907 | Knox | Patrol 1 (1908 - ?) | |||
B-none | 1908 | Knox | Patrol 5 (1908 - ?) | |||
B-1 | 1913 | White | Patrol 6 (1912 - ?) | |||
B-2 | 1912 | White | Patrol 1 (1912 - ?) | |||
B-3 | 1913 | White | Patrol 2 (1913 - ?) | |||
B-4 | 1913 | White | Patrol 6 (1913 - ?) | |||
B-5 | 1912 | White | Patrol 8 (1913 - ?) | |||
B-6 | 1912 | White | Patrol 3 (1913 - ?) | |||
B-7 | 1914 | White | Patrol 4 (1916 - ?) | Listed as "chemical" | ||
B-8 | 1913 | White | Patrol 5 (1914 - ?) | |||
B-9 | 1913 | White | Patrol 6 (1914 - ?) | |||
B-10 | 1913 | White | Patrol 7 (1914 - ?) | |||
B-11 | 1914 | White | Patrol 1 (1914 - ?) | |||
B-12 | 1913 | White | Patrol 8 (1914 - ?) | |||
B-13 | 1913 | White | Patrol 3 (1914 - ?) | |||
B-14 | 1916 | White | Spare | Roof Service | Purchased 1920 | |
B-15 | 1924 | Yellow Coach/Jacob Press | Patrol 1 | |||
B-16 | 1924 | White | Patrol 3 (1925 - ?) | Second section of Patrol 3 | ||
B-17 | 1920 | White | Spare (1921 - ?) | Roof Service | ||
B-18 | 1924 | Yellow Coach | Patrol 1 (1925 - ?) | Second section of Patrol 1 | ||
B-19 | 1924 | Yellow Coach | Patrol 3 (1925 - ?) | First section of Patrol 3 | ||
B-20 | 1927 | Yellow Coach | Patrol 2 | Purchased 7/1/1926; body built by shops | ||
B-20A | 1926 | REO Speed Wagon/Fire Patrol Shops | Roof Service | |||
B-21 | 1927 | Yellow Coach | Patrol 2 (1926 - ?) | First vehicles to not be numbered (to ease swapping); second section of Patrol 2 | ||
B-22 | 1927 | Yellow Coach | Patrol 7 (1926 - ?) | |||
B-23 | 1927 | Yellow Coach | Patrol 5 (1926 - ?) | |||
B-24 | 1928 | Diamond T | Patrol 9 (1928 - ?) | |||
B-25 | 1928 | Diamond T | Patrol 6? | Patrol 4 | Seriously damaged in collision with streetcar at Roosevelt Road and Sacramento Boulevard in 1931; listed as "chemical" | |
B-26 | 1929 | Diamond T | Patrol 8 (1928 - ?) | Patrol 8 | ||
B-27 | 1929 | Diamond T | Patrol 3 (1929 - ?) | |||
B-28 | 1940 | Buick station wagon | Patrol 5 (1941 - ?) | Later at Patrol 7 and Patrol 6 | ||
B-29 | 1940 | Buick station wagon | Patrol 1 (1941 - ?) | |||
B-30 | 1937 | White | Patrol 2 (1938 - ?) | Patrol 5? | Enclosed body; may have been assigned 1/6/1937; appears to have been at Patrol 5 in 1942 | |
B-31 | 1938 | White | Patrol 1 (1939 - 4/1949) | Enclosed body | ||
B-32 | 1938 | GMC panel truck | Patrol 3 (1938 - 1941?) | |||
B-33 | 1941 | Ford panel truck | Spare (1942 - ?) | May have been used by Fire Patrol 3 (1941? - ?); overturned due to accident at 61st & South Parkway | ||
B-34 | 1941 | Ford panel truck | Patrol 2 (1941 - ?) | |||
B-35 | 1941 | Ford panel truck | Spare (1942 - ?) | |||
B-36 | 1935 | GMC | Patrol 5 | Open cab; acquired from disbanded Milwaukee Fire Insurance Patrol in 1942 | ||
B-37 | 1944 | Ford panel truck | Spare (1945 - ?) | |||
B-38 | 1944 | Ford panel truck | Patrol 7 (1944 - ?) | |||
B-39 | 1945 | Ford | Patrol 1 (1946 - ?) | Patrol 4 | "Pie wagon" | |
B-40 | 1945 | Ford | Patrol 3 (1945 - ?) | "Pie wagon" | ||
B-41 | 1945 | Ford | Patrol 5 | "Pie wagon" | ||
B-42 | 1946 | Ford | Patrol 1 | "Pie wagon" | ||
B-43 | 1949 | Ford/General | Patrol 1 (4/1949 - ?) | Patrol 2? | First rigs with black over red paint scheme; sedan cab | Fire Patrol 1 (Steve Redick) |
B-44 | 1949 | Ford/General | Patrol 5 | Patrol 7 | Sedan cab; owned by the Fire Museum of Greater Chicago | |
B-45 | 1949 | Ford/General | Patrol 3 | Sedan cab; one of these 1949 Fords was sold to Midlothian, where it served as their squad | ||
B-46 | 1951 | Ford/General | Patrol 5 | Sedan cab; owned by the Fire Museum of Greater Chicago | ||
B-47 | 1952 | Ford/General | Patrol 1 | Sedan cab | ||
B-48 | 1954 | Ford/General | Patrol 2 | Sedan cab | ||
B-49 | 1957 | Ford pickup | Patrol pickup | |||
B-50 | 1958 | Ford/General | Patrol 1 (1958 - 6/29/1959) | Sedan cab; in service before 8/3/1958; became Skokie’s Salvage Squad 1 after disbanding of Fire Patrol; owned by the Fire Museum of Greater Chicago | Fire Patrol 1 (Steve Redick) |