As seen around … Gary, Indiana « chicagoareafire.com

As seen around … Gary, Indiana

This from Eric Haak:

I spent Sunday (3/15/15) in Gary, Indiana and even though I didn’t catch the big one, the day was at least interesting as it usually is in Gary. Companies were dispatched to a dwelling fire in the 2400 block of Colfax around 12:45. I was on the other side of town and missed the address so by the time I arrived it was mostly out. Turned out to be the same vacant dwelling that was burned a few weeks ago.

Truck 2 broke down while en route and had to be replaced with Truck 1 from the other side of town. With decent light I took a few shots of the responding rigs. Squad 2 is now responding in the Chevy 3500 that is pictured. They responded with three in the rig.

Eric Haak photo

Eric Haak photo

Eric Haak photo

Eric Haak photo

Eric Haak photo

Eric Haak photo

At about 2:00, a brush fire came in out in Miller (the far east side of town). The fire was on a hill that was directly behind an apartment complex. Engine 7 had to back into a position at the base of the hill to feed a line over a retention wall in order to gain access. Nothing spectacular but better than nothing.

Eric Haak photo

Eric Haak photo

Eric Haak photo

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This entry was posted on March 16, 2015, 7:00 AM and is filed under Apparatus on-scene, Brush Fire, Fire Scene photos. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

5 Comments

#1 by Rich on March 17, 2015 - 7:02 AM

Is there any current photos of gary’s apparatus?
- #2 by Midwest Medic on March 17, 2015 - 9:59 AM
  
  Indianafiretrucks.com is pretty current on Garys fleet. They move rigs around some so assignments might not be entirely accurate but the pics will be.
#3 by Eric Haak on March 16, 2015 - 7:27 PM

I’m not sure what happened to Truck 2 either. They terminated their run coming off of 80/94 at Burr Street and reported that it was smoking pretty bad.
#4 by GFD213 on March 16, 2015 - 6:13 PM

Erik, Thank you for posting photos from Still City.
#5 by Erik H on March 16, 2015 - 4:17 PM

I’m not sure what happened to Truck 2 going to the fire but they were back running later that day and went to another fire over night at 24th and king. It was the same still companies you got, their second fire for the shift.