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Christmas eve fires from previous years (more)

Chief Drew Smith reminded us of two other past Christmas eve fires, both of which occurred prior to the existence of the #chicagoareafire.com blog

4-Alarm fire in Prospect Heights, 12-24-06 (2006 River Trails Condos in Prospect Heights. 4th alarm MABAS box)

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

5-Alarm fire in Wheeling, 12-24-93 (1993 Franklin Foods grocery store fire in Wheeling)

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro photo

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This entry was posted on December 25, 2023, 3:30 PM and is filed under Apparatus on-scene, Fire Department History, Fire Scene photos. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Comments

• #1 by michael m on December 26, 2023 - 5:27 AM

  

  Hard to believe that the Prospect Heights Fire was 17 years ago! The Ladder truck in the bottom Photo looks like the old Buffalo Grove E-One Quint, my how time has gone by! Interesting to see that Northbrook once upon a time had yellow rigs! Tower 12 was once upon a time Tower 11. What year did Northbrook move the tower from 11 to 12? How old is the Stuphen rig in the photo? Is their Current rig a 2019 or a 2020 Pierce?

• #2 by Retired FF on December 25, 2023 - 9:02 PM

  

  Myself and another member of my department just made it onto a flat roof on the bravoside to cut a vent hole to help stop the fires advancement. Things got hairy real quick and we made it down a minute or two before the main roof collapsed.

• #3 by Mark Mitchell on December 25, 2023 - 5:21 PM

  

  We can’t forget the Karcher Hotel fire in Waukegan on 12/25/1984. By then, the building was run as housing for the elderly and eight people died in what I believe was a 4th alarm.

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