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3-11 Alarm fire in Chicago, 3-22-22

Chicago firefighters battled a 3-11 Alarm fire in a commercial building with a bow-string truss roof at 3040 W. Lawrence Avenue late morning and into the afternoon on Tuesday 3/22/22.

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This entry was posted on March 22, 2022, 3:30 PM and is filed under Apparatus on-scene, Fire Scene photos. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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• #1 by Jim S on March 23, 2022 - 1:58 PM

  

  Putting the TL basket at the sidewalk level is a GREAT tactic. The video’s I’ve seen from this fire show CFD trying it. The problem is they needed to get the basket closer to the ground so the stream could shoot upward through the windows into the cockloft. I think they may have been worried about being in the collapse zone with the basket.

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• #2 by Rich on March 22, 2022 - 8:43 PM

  

  Who said a tower can’t do a sidewalk sweep.

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