Excerpts from abc7chicago.com:
More than 12 hours after smoke alarms first sounded, firefighters were still battling a massive fire that destroyed a warehouse at the Brewster Creek Business Park in west suburban Bartlett.
The fire was at Access, a secure document storage facility at 1200 Humbracht Circle where the warehouse was stacked floor to ceiling with boxes of documents, providing ample fuel for the fire. What workers said began as a few boxes on fire grew into an inferno.
The trouble began around 10 a.m. when officials said a sprinkler system initially kept the fire in check, but when a series of steel racks being used to store boxes collapsed, there was no saving the warehouse.
In a statement, Access said all its employees evacuated the building and are safe. The company added that it is working with local authorities to determine the cause of the fire.
This from Larry Shapiro:
I responded to the incident around 10:30 a.m. when it was a 2nd Alarm MABAS Box. The MVU was utilized to clear smoke from the warehouse after Bartlett companies had earlier made entry into the building. I mainly photographed the massive amount of apparatus on the scene and they were winding things down releasing everyone but the Bartlett units. At 3:45 p.m. they requested a Box Alarm to the scene for heavy fire.
Larry Shapiro photo
#1 by Fred M on February 6, 2022 - 9:49 AM
Are the sprinkler systems in these buildings somehow attached to the racks or are they ceiling mounted?
#2 by harry on February 5, 2022 - 8:16 PM
according to bn17.smugmug.com bartlett still has the 2 pierce engines both are still lettered 1 and 2
#3 by PeterK on February 5, 2022 - 12:52 PM
once the sprinkler system was disabled the only thing to do is to let the building burn and to put up a perimeter to keep it from spreading. This is not the first and wont be last records/documents storage facility to burn to the ground for example Prudential lost a unit in NJ, Diversified Records lost one in Pennsylvania, Iron Mountain lost one in London and another company lost one along the East River in NYC. Court and health records were destroyed in the last fire
#4 by Michael m on February 5, 2022 - 12:04 PM
I am guessing one of the Pierce Engines is engine 3. I am sure they sold the 2000 E-One.
Remember Bartlett is 1-4 in the DuPage County numbering system. Now if they kept both Pierce Engines there might be an Engine 4.
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#5 by harry on February 4, 2022 - 8:35 PM
it appears bartlett has the 2 pierce engines still both pierce engines and both rosenbaurers were at the fire saw pictures on bn17.smugmug.com
#6 by harry on February 4, 2022 - 7:33 PM
i wonder if bartlett will get a new truck next
#7 by Jeremy B. on February 4, 2022 - 5:56 PM
Michael M, it looks like the Firefighter is from Elk Grove, which would be the Division 1 MVU.
#8 by michael m on February 4, 2022 - 2:22 PM
It looks like that Streamwood is using the reserve Seagrave aerial ladder at this time. I am guessing the tower is Out of service. With the two new engines what apparatus are at station 3 with the Tower. For sure the Squad is at Station 3, do they have one of the old Pierce Engines at Station 3 as well?
Other than an engine and an Ambulance what other rigs are at Stations 1 and 2? Is the Brush Truck still at station 3?
#9 by Michael m on February 4, 2022 - 1:53 PM
Was this the Division 1 or 10 MVU?
#10 by Michael m on February 4, 2022 - 1:53 PM
Nice shot of the New Elgin truck.
#11 by Michael m on February 4, 2022 - 1:50 PM
Things were under control early on. Lesson here is don’t keep combustible materials close together.
#12 by BMurphy on February 4, 2022 - 1:30 PM
The forthcoming wave of litigation over this will be enormous.
#13 by John Montefalco on February 4, 2022 - 10:07 AM
I believe they are letting it burn completely
#14 by Mike hellmuth on February 4, 2022 - 8:39 AM
Still burning………