Firefighter/EMT Leigh Unger tests the deluge gun on top of the new engine which the Norwood Park Fire Department put into service in the beginning of June. Lt. Claude Erlewein, Firefighter/EMT Rich Appelhans and Firefighter Jim Cotiguala assist. Purchased in April for about $450,000, all the engineers had to train with the new engine before it could be put into service. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Firefighter Jim Cotiguala (left) opens a hydrant to connect a hose to the Norwood Park Fire Department's new engine with help from Lt. Claude Erlewein (right) and Paramedic/Firefighter Mark Taubensee (center). | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Lt. Claude Erlewein connects a hose from a hydrant to the new engine which the Norwood Park Fire Department put into service beginning in June. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

The water pump discharge gauge and display menu on the Norwood Park Fire Department's new fire engine. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

The Norwood Park Fire Department helped design their new engine, including making the hoses more accessible from the back of the truck. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Lt. Claude Erlewein points to the water pump discharge gauge on the Norwood Park Fire Department's new engine. The engine holds 750 gallons of water. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

The new engine (right) which the Norwood Park Fire Department purchased replaces the 1996 engine (left) which the fire department sold to a fire department in northern Wisconsin. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Paramedic/Firefighter Mark Taubensee (right), Lt. Claude Erlewein and Firefighter/EMT Rich Appelhans unstrap a hose from the new engine the Norwood Park Fire Department put into service beginning in June. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Firefighter/EMT Leigh Unger turns on the emergency lights of the new engine which the Norwood Park Fire Department put into service in the beginning of June. Purchased in April for about $450,000, all the engineers had to train with the new engine before it could be put into service. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Buttons which control the emergency lights on the new fire engine the Norwood Park Fire Department recently purchased. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

The Norwood Park Fire Department's chaplain Father Fred Tomzik (right) of St. Monica Parish in Chicago blessed the new engine when the engine went into service on Friday, June 1, 2012. | Courtesy photo