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A federal judge recently agreed to dissolve a 42-year-old court mandate on minority hiring within the Chicago Fire Department, finding that minority representation had increased substantially since its implementation in early 1980.
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Tower Ladder 34 has been used to pluck people from a burning apartment building. It once came to the aid of a worker with frost-bitten fingers stuck high up on a cellphone tower.
But the tower truck’s days are numbered at least at its current location with Engine Co. 72, 7982 S. South Chicago Ave. The ladder truck, which is equipped with a basket and can extend up 10 stories, is being moved to a new location as part of a wider plan to “consolidate and improve overall fire coverage on the South Side,” according to the fire department.
Two dozen or so current and former South Side firefighters as well as some community activists gathered in front of the firehouse Thursday to protest the truck’s removal.