WHEELS ARE COMING OFF OF BRANDON JOHNSON’S CHICAGO: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s running Windy City into the ground… Chicago Fire Truck wheel comes loose, wrecks parked car

Hat tip to Second City Cop for this one. We knew about the great majority of tower ladder trucks belonging to Chicago Fire Department being offline because of breakdowns, lack of preventative maintenance and an unwillingness of the City of Chicago to pay for needed repairs. That’s all well and good until you have a major fire in a high rise building.

We even reported on how dozens if no scores of CFD apparatus were offline at the maintenance shed.

MAYOR MAYHEM’S CHICAGO: Englewood’s fire station has no fire engines, scores of apparatus out of service

It was so bad that the Englewood stations remaining engine had broken down and that station was left without a single fire truck. Maybe they could issue electric bikes to the firefighters to respond to fire calls?

Now this.

Northwest Highway/Parkside: a wheel fell off of a Chicago Fire Department fire truck and hit parked cars.

These are the pictures of that incident.#Chicago #ChicagoScanner pic.twitter.com/CrqawjYzVT

— 16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner (@CPD1617Scanner) November 9, 2024

How about that?

I uploaded this at full resolution. How in the world did this happen? Deferred maintenance creates a life-safety hazard that could have killed someone. Image via Second City Cop. Look at the condition of the tire next to it! OMG.

So glad the City of Chicago paid big bucks for the finest tires money could buy (no doubt from a connected vendor), only to mount them onto a rusted hulk of a rim of a poorly maintained million-dollar firetruck.

Imagine that was your wife loading stuff into the back of that car? With your kid or grandkid next to her! Because of criminal negligence of someone at the firehouse/Chicago City Garage. That apparatus should have been taken out of service months before.