Your Bio

Greetings. My name is Bill Friedrich. I am on the left. I recently retired after 32 years as a Battalion Chief with the Downers Grove FD,IL. I am a apparatus manufacturer historian specializing in Pierce fire apparatus. I specialize in fire apparatus photos from the City of Chicago, the suburbs, all other areas of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. I hope you all enjoy my work.

I have added a new category located in Chicago Metropolitan FDs. Down memory lane showing rigs that used to serve each department.

Due to the large amount of counties in Illinois, I have separated the 8 County Metropolitan Area FDs from the remainder of the 102 Counties.

***** I would like to introduce a new Chicagoland Area Fire Department website that I am participating in with 4 other photographers. Please take a look at it when you are done on this site. http://www.chicagoareafire.com

Here is a link to my friends Shaun Ryan and Chuck Madderom's website.
http://www.fireapparatusphotography.com

Featured Galleries

2009 PHOTO SEASON PHOTOS : All photos for 2009 have been added. The weather was not the best this year so we did not shoot allot of the new rigs that have been delivered.  2010 will be a busy one. Photos are added by date shot so the latest will be on page one and the oldest will be on page 41.

2009 PHOTO SEASON PHOTOS

All photos for 2009 have been added. The weather was not the best this ...

Updated: Nov 13, 2009 5:17am PST

Gallery Categories

2008 PHOTO SEASON

1 gallery with 828 photos

Updated: Mar 27, 2009 1:57pm PST

CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AREA FDs

23 galleries with 1833 photos

Updated: Oct 14, 2009 6:52pm PST

CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT

38 galleries with 1287 photos

Updated: Nov 11, 2008 7:00am PST

ILLINOIS FDs BY COUNTY

51 galleries with 882 photos

Updated: Jan 22, 2009 7:19am PST

ILLINOIS FIRE STATIONS

1 gallery with 58 photos

Updated: Jun 13, 2009 10:52am PST

INDIANA FDs

13 galleries with 357 photos

Updated: Jun 08, 2008 5:34am PST

IOWA FDs

1 gallery with 9 photos

Updated: Mar 22, 2008 8:07am PST

MISSOURI FDs

2 galleries with 162 photos

Updated: Oct 23, 2008 9:27am PST

WISCONSIN FDs

21 galleries with 806 photos

Updated: Mar 13, 2008 11:41am PST

2007 PHOTO SEASON PHOTOS

1 gallery with 515 photos

Updated: Jun 05, 2009 6:33am PST

DETROT FD

1 gallery with 6 photos

Updated: Feb 17, 2008 7:25am PST

JOLIET FD

1 gallery with 79 photos

Updated: Nov 16, 2008 8:07pm PST

MILWAUKEE FIRE DEPARTMENT

3 galleries with 125 photos

Updated: Jul 22, 2009 1:47pm PST

SPECIALIZED GALLERIES

9 galleries with 285 photos

Updated: Aug 09, 2008 3:33pm PST

APPARATUS MANUFACTURERS

4 galleries with 192 photos

Updated: Mar 31, 2008 5:09am PST

MICHIGAN FDs

1 gallery with 39 photos

Updated: Jul 20, 2008 8:45am PST

MUSTERS, PARADES, EVERYTHING ELSE

1 gallery with 84 photos

Updated: Sep 12, 2008 9:55pm PST

2009 PHOTO SEASON

1 gallery with 523 photos

Updated: Nov 13, 2009 5:17am PST