video from Steve Redick from the 2-11 Alarm fire at 3249 W. Harrison
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This from Eric Haak:
Here are a few of my shots from the 2-11 at the corner of Harrison & Spaulding. Engine 107 was first due and is shown parked on Spaulding. The rear wall collapsed within the first 15 minutes of 107’s arrival. Also shown is Engine 44 which was feeding Tower Ladder 5 on Harrison just west of Spaulding. Also seen are 2 images of sector 1 of the auto detailing shop. There were two overhead doors in sector 1. In one image, there was a 1960’s vintage Cadillac parked right behind that door. The fourth image is just after a portion of the roof collapsed.
Eric Haak photo
Eric Haak photo
Engine 107 was first due. Eric Haak photo
Eric Haak photo
Eric Haak photo
This from Dan McInerney:
Some photos from this morning’s 2-11 at 1433 S. Kenneth. I got there late after the fire had been pretty much put out. Fire was in a 3sty, vacant apartment building, marked with the ominous red “X”. Fire was mostly throughout the 3rd floor. A tower ladder, 5-5-2’s Snorkel, a mulitversal and a few handlines were used. Both TL14 and E99 had mechanical issues – E117 coming in on the 2-11 was tasked with replacing E99, and TL5 was sent for TL14. Attached are a couple of scene shots and a few rig shots.The first 3 show the Snorkel and multiversal on the north side of the fire building
Chicago Squad 2A deployed in the alley. Dan McInerney photo
A view from the alley showing two sides of the building. Dan McInerney photo
Multi-versal being used on the north side of the building. Dan McInerney photo
Command Van 2-7-1. Dan McInerney photo
Air Mask Unit 6-4-5. Dan McInerney photo
Engine 38 was the Still Alarm engine to the fire. Dan McInerney photo
Chicago Engine 99. Dan McInerney photo
Truck 48 was the Still Alarm truck. Dan McInerney photo
Tower ladder with Snorkel in the background. Dan McInerney photo
Elevated master streams douse remaining hot spots on the third floor. Dan McInerney photo
View from the rear shows tower ladder and squad at work. Dan McInerney photo
Squad 2’s Snorkel at work/ Dan McInerney photo
Spare tower ladder at work. Dan McInerney photo
Chicago firefighters responded to a reported fire in a large warehouse complex last night at 4834 S. Halsted. First arriving units found a 200×500, 5-story, fire-resistive structure with heavy smoke pushing out of the first floor. After a brief interior attack, companies were pulled out to initiate defensive operations. The alarm was upgraded to a 2-11 and a special call was made for Engine 81 with Hose Wagon 6-1-1.
The Chicago Tribune reported:
One firefighter was injured at an extra-alarm blaze in an abandoned factory in the Back of the Yards neighborhood that was being brought under control this evening.
The fire started in the abandoned L-shaped building west of 48th Street and Halsted Avenue about 5:45 p.m. The firefighter was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for treatment, where he was alert and comfortable this evening, according to the Fire Department.
The factory building is of concrete construction, so was not as difficult to contain the fire as the recent extra-alarm fire in Bridgeport.
About a dozen fire department vehicles were stationed around the vacant warehouse Monday evening as others blocked off Halsted between 47th and 49th streets.
Firefighters called to the scene were confronted with volumes of “thick black smoke” streaming out of the warehouse’s windows, said deputy fire comissioner John McNicholas.
The entire Tribune article is HERE with a video and several images.
Tower Ladders and the Snorkel were positioned to be put to work, but the fire was determined to be involving contents and not the building itself. Another special request was made for Engine 106 with 9-2-3, the Mobile Ventilation Unit.
Tim Olk, Steve Redick, and Larry Shapiro went to the scene, but there was not much to see.
Chicago companies arrived at 230 E. Ontario Street Friday morning and found a 30-story high-rise with fire blowing out of a 7th floor window in Sector 1. The alarm was immediately upgraded to a Box Alarm followed by a 2-11 Alarm and EMS Plan I.
The Chicago Tribune has an article:
An extra-alarm fire at a Near North Side high-rise building was largely confined to the unit where it started because the apartment’s resident remembered to close the door after fleeing the fire, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
Crews were called about 11:15 a.m. to a building in the 200 block of East Ontario Street, according to Larry Langford, a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department. The fire was raised from a still and box alarm to a 2-11 alarm just before 11:30 a.m. Traffic around North Michigan Avenue north of the Chicago River was affected.
The woman who lives in the apartment, age 25, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospitalin good-to-fair condition to be evaluated, Langford said.
The entire article can be found HERE along with photos and a video.
thanks Chris
video from Josh Boyajian
The Chicago Tribune reported the following:
A woman was rescued from an extra-alarm fire at an apartment building in the Buena Park neighborhood on the North Side this morning, officials said. [she] was brought down a ladder at 736 W. Buena Avenue, … [and] was taken in fair to serious condition to Weiss Memorial Hospital.
A firefighter was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center to be checked as a precaution, officials said.
The fire started on the fourth floor of the building around 9:30 a.m. and was soon upgraded to a 2-11 alarm, officials said, citing preliminary information.
The article with photos is HERE.
Firefighters from Chicago Truck 22 performed the rescue.
