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Wheeling brush fire 3-31-14

This from Larry Shapiro:

It’s that season again … RED Center received several calls late Monday morning about brush fires in Wheeling near the Union Pacific railroad tracks from 444 Carpenter all the way north to Lake Cook Road. At the same time, they fielded calls for additional fires along Bond Street in the Long Grove Fire Protection District near Lincolnshire and Buffalo Grove. Buffalo Grove companies were also handling fires near the tracks as far north as Route 22.

The railroad stopped all trains from passing through and had another train that had recently gone through the area stop for inspection.

All fires were out within a period of about 90 minutes. Here are some images from the largest of the fires. This was behind 250 Carpenter Street, south of Dundee Road.

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

more images are in a gallery at shapirophotography.net

Tags: brush fire, dry grass burns near railroad right-of-way, firefighters extinguish grass fires on a windy day, Larry Shapiro, Rosenbauer America Timberwolf, Wheeling Fire Department

This entry was posted on April 1, 2014, 6:59 AM and is filed under Apparatus on-scene, Brush Fire, Fire. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Comments

• #1 by Drew Smith on April 1, 2014 - 2:14 PM

  

  Many times these early spring brush fires along a rail road grade are due to a bad bearing on a train care. Rail road workers have referred to them as a “hot box” where sparks shoot off into the dry vegetation.

• #2 by Robert on April 1, 2014 - 1:04 PM

  

  Fartin Fred, common. How do you not expect a farting joke.

• #3 by Fartin' Fred on April 1, 2014 - 12:14 PM

  

  What’s causing these brush fires?

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