Posts Tagged Chicago FD Engine 16

As seen around … Chicago

Jun 19

Posted by Admin in Fire Truck photos | 1 Comment

This from chicagoland_fire_photos on Instagram:

A visit to cfd engine 16’s quarters

Home to:

Engine 16

Ambo 35

Hazmat 5-1-1

Hazmat support 5-1-1a

Mobile lab 5-1-11

Hazmat coordinator 5-1-0

OFI 4-6-6/4-6-7/4-6-8/4-6-9

Also a picture of E16’s former quarters which is now a security company

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Tags: Chicago FD 5-1-11, Chicago FD 5-1-1A, Chicago FD Engine 16, Chicago FD haz mat units, Chicago FD Hazardous Incident Team 5-1-1, Chicago FD OFI 4-6-6, Chicago FD OFI 4-6-7, Chicago FD OFI 4-6-8, Chicago FD OFI 4-6-9, Chicagoland_fire_photos on instagram

Still and Box Alarm fire in Chicago, 2-8-20

Feb 9

Posted by Admin in Fire Scene photos | 2 Comments

This from Eric Haak:

Still & Box Alarm in Chicago. At 5:45 Saturday morning, companies were dispatched to 4208 South Wells Street. Engine Co. 16 landed first and reported a 1.5-story frame, 20 x 50 with fire through the roof. Engine’s 16 and 29 used their deck guns to darken down the bulk of the fire and within minutes. All that was needed were a few hand lines to mop up. There was some very minor communication to the “B” side exposure with visible flames along the eave but that was quickly extinguished and further communication prevented.

flames engulf the roof of house at night

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Chicago fire engine deploys deck gun at fire

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Firefighters with hose line at house fire

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Chicago Firefighters at night fire scene

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Tags: Chicago FD candidates work to battle house fire, Chicago FD Engine 16, Chicago Fire Department, Eric Haak, fire scene photos, flames through the roof of a hosue, house gutted by fire, night fire scene photos

Chicago Fire Department history

Oct 25

Posted by Admin in Fire Department History, Fire Scene photos, Historic fire apparatus, Historic Fire Photo | 7 Comments

This fro Dan McInerney:

Chicago Fire Department
1554hrs: Special duty, : E50, 1559hrs: T18, E16, Bn18
Approx 51st Street
Norfolk Railroad Operations complex 3/2/97

This was a fire in a crane unit that moved intermodal containers around. E50 eventually needed to be supplied, so they used T18 (notice the outriggers 🙂 ) to run a line.

I can’t for the life of me remember how we drove into the yard, but we beat E50 in. We had full access to the incident, and several NS yard employees watched. Now days if you tried this, they’d send a SWAT team after you.

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Tags: Chicago FD Engine 16, Chicago FD Engine 50, Chicago FD Truck 18, Chicago Fire Department history, Dan McInerney, intermodal yard crane fire

Chicago Still & Box Alarm fire, 2-15-16

Feb 15

Posted by Admin in Apparatus on-scene, Fire Scene photos | 9 Comments

This from Eric Haak:

It was a very busy early morning for southside companies on Monday (2/15). At approximately 1:30 there was a fatal pin-in accident at 85th and the Dan Ryan. Around the same time, Engine 49 landed at 43rd and Packers for an automatic alarm to find a light haze in an industrial building. This was eventually be elevated to a still and box with stacks of cardboard burning but being held in check by the sprinkler system. Companies were at that address for over three hours.

At 3:45 Engine 101 landed with a working fire at 76th and Artesian. One hour later there was another still and box at 5141 S. Princeton which is where these images were taken. Due to battalion chiefs being committed at both earlier fires, Battalion 7 was the still chief at this incident. There were several frozen hydrants and the fire did spread to the occupied home on the “D” side. The original fire building was a frame house that had been converted to a church. I could not confirm but I believe the spare is Engine 122. The other box engine was Engine 5.