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New ambulance 76 at Engine 115’s house FDC266
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New ambulance for Chicago
Oct 12
This from Steve Redick:
This was about 0200 Saturday morning. A large warehouse stacked floor to ceiling with junky combustibles. The fire was in an outside rubbish/storage area beneath an overhang. For a bit it looked like the fire had gotten a hold in the building. Bar joist truss construction and initial heavy smoke and excessive stock inside made for a defensive operation for most of the fire. The MVU was used to clear the building once the fire was contained. This could have been a real dandy but fortunately everything worked out well.SteveAll the images and video can be seen here:
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Chicago Fire Department news
Sep 21
Excerpts from nbcchicago.com:
A fire caused considerable damage to a concession stand Thursday afternoon at Wrigley Field. The fire was reported at 2:16 p.m. in a concession stand underneath the press box at the ballpark, 1060 W. Addison St., according to Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford.
Crews from the fire station across the street from the park on Waveland used water lines and chemical extinguishers to tackle the blaze. The fire has since been put out and no injuries were reported.
“Damage is considerable to the concession stand but not the structure,” Langford said.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation Thursday afternoon.
Chicago Fire Department news
Sep 21
Excerpts from the ChicagoSunTimes.com:
With a leadership vacuum in the Chicago Fire Department nearing crisis stage, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has chosen the second in command to replace retired Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago until the mayoral election.
Richard C. Ford II, who is African-American, will fill the $202,728-a-year void created when Santiago reached the mandatory retirement age of 63 and Emanuel was either unable or unwilling to find a legal path to keep Santiago as a civilian fire commissioner. A 35-year veteran Chicago firefighter, Ford has served as the No. 2 man since February, 2016. Prior to that, he spent five years overseeing a Fire Prevention Bureau wracked by a timekeeping and mileage padding scandal that prompted the inspector general to recommend all 54 firefighters be fired only to be thwarted by an independent arbitrator.
Ford takes over the department during a challenging time.
A wave of retirements tied, in part, to a pay differential, may soon leave the Chicago Fire Department without a single deputy commissioner. Already, the fire department is 25 short in the exempt ranks with three more retirements pending. Last year, 32 members of the fire department’s exempt ranks returned to their career service ranks after Emanuel discontinued the longstanding practice of boosting the pay of exempt-rank members in response to union contracts that increased pay for the rank-and-file.
The fire officials are seeking pension changes, expanded health insurance benefits and pay raises. They recently got a four percent pay raise, far short of the 11 percent they were seeking.
Another source, who asked to remain anonymous, said the leadership vacuum in the Chicago Fire Department is nearing a crisis stage.
“Come Nov. 1, if we have two major events at the same time, we won’t have enough officers to cover it. That means we may have to go to the…Mutual Aid Box Alarm System, where we have a suburban chief run a Chicago fire,” the source said.
In a press release announcing Ford’s appointment, the mayor’s office also disclosed that the fire department would begin exploring a new paramedicine program for high users overly-reliant on ambulance services for routine care. The new program was described as providing pro-active medical treatment…to improve healthcare and wellness, reducing the burden on Chicago taxpayers for emergency medical services that are not necessary.
thanks Scott
Excerpts from abc7chicago.com:
A 69-year-old grandfather who threw his 7-year-old grandson out a second-story window to Chicago police officers below as their home burned has died, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed on Monday.
Apolonio Castellano was critically injured in the Sept. 9 fire in the 10000 block of South Avenue L in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center with burns and smoke inhalation. The boy survived thanks to Castellano efforts.
This from Steve Redick:
Took in a quick job the other night basically right across the street from Engine 11’s house. I arrived pretty promptly but there wasn’t much to see by the time I found what side of the building complex the fire was on. A handline was taken up Truck 9’s aerial but I believe an interior line had already pretty much contained the fire. I saw 1 victim being treated.Steve
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This from Eric Haak:
The following images were taken this 9/9 at a still and box alarm fire at 10026 South Avenue L on Chicago’s Southeast side. The first image shown was taken 2 minutes before the box was requested and gives you an idea of conditions at that time. The building was balloon frame construction and the fire had made it into the attic. A man who witnessed the fire told me a grandfather pushed a 7-year old out the second floor window but then couldn’t escape himself. Companies went defensive for a brief time.
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