Archive for February 12th, 2017

3-Alarm fire in Oak Park, 2-10-17 (more)

This from Steve Redick:

Early morning basement fire in a large occupied apartment building in Oak Park. Fire spread up to all floors and required a lot of tough inside work. Not a lot to see from my vantage point. Also there was a very brief mayday that was quickly secured. Conditions were temps in the teens.

aftermath of apartment building fire

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Oak Park FD Truck 631

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Oak Park FD Truck 631

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Oak Park FD Engine 602

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Oak Park FD Truck 631

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Berwyn FD Engine 903

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aftermath of apartment building fire

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 more photos at Shapirophotography.net

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Still & Box Alarm fire in Chicago, 2-12-17

This from Eric Haak:

At approximately 0605 hrs on Sunday morning (2/12), the Englewood Fire Alarm Office received several calls for a fire at the intersection of 44th and Shields Ave. Engine 50 landed on the scene and confirmed a fire in a 2.5-story vacant frame with exposure to a 1.5-story occupied frame. Two minutes later, the 2nd Battalion reported he had heavy fire in the 2.5-story and requested a Box. The first image below was taken just before Engine 50 opened up with their deck gun which knocked down a lot of the visible fire in the front. There was a lot of fire extension into the occupied exposure and companies made an interior attack on that structure. Eventually Squad 5’s Snorkel and Tower Ladder 39 were brought down to mop up the remaining fire in the original building which was under rehab. In an October, 2015 Google Streets image, the building was a Red-X and appeared to have had a basement fire in it previously.

house engulfed in flames at night

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Chicago FD Engine 50 at fire scene

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Firefighters battle house fire at night

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house engulfed in flames at night

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Firefighters battle house fire at night

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Chicago Firefighters on roof with flames

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Firefighters battle house fire

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Chicago Fire Department news

Excepts from WGNtv.com:

Close to 20 people lost their Garfield Park home to fire Saturday morning, but the loss could have been immeasurably worse had firefighters not been able to rescue a man in wheelchair and a child who was sleeping in the basement.

Martinia Martin left her first floor apartment Saturday morning for the store, and when she came back she saw smoke, fire, and firefighters. Even worse, out of the 13 children who were first evacuated from the building’s apartments, her 7-year-old daughter wasn’t with them.

Firefighters carried a quadrapalegic man out in his wheelchair before finally finding the 7-year-old sleeping in a downstairs bedroom. She was scared, but otherwise healthy.

CFD Batallion Chief Keith Bozenda was on the scene, and said no one was seriously injured in the fire.

The home is severely damaged and will likely have to come down. People who lived there have been busy not only trying to find a place to stay, but also saving some of their few surviving possessions.

thanks Dan

the link features video footage from the scene

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Still & Box Alarm in Chicago, 2-11-17 (part 2)

Photos from Tim Olk at the Still & Box Alarm in Chicago, 2-11-17

heavy smoke pours out of warehouse

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heavy smoke pours out of warehouse

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heavy smoke pours out of warehouse

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Firefighter props door at warehouse fire

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Chicago FD MVU 923

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