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Chicago 2-11 Alarm commercial fire, 1-17-14

Jan 17

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Chicago had a 2-11 Alarm fire overnight at 75th & King Drive.

The fire in the Dollar & Up store, at the southwest corner of East 75th Street and South Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, was reported at 12:12 a.m., Chicago Fire Department District Chief Tim Sampey said. Firefighters found a “heavy volume of fire” in the store and elevated it to a 2-11 alarm as they worked to keep it from spreading to an adjacent business, Sampey said.

After learning that no one was believed to be inside, firefighters fought in defensive mode, attacking the fire from the outside of the building.

Firefighters kept the flames from spreading to the adjacent Cricket store and extinguished the blaze at 1:30 a.m.

Images from the scene are from Gordon J. Nord, Jr.

heavy smoke pours out of commercial store on fire in Chicago at night

Gordon J. Nord, Jr. photo

Chicago FD Engine 122 working at fire scene Spartan

Gordon J. Nord, Jr. photo

firemen pro water on commercial fire at night

Gordon J. Nord, Jr. photo

chief fire officers in Chicago discuss strategy at fire scene

Gordon J. Nord, Jr. photo

E-ONE ladder truck at night fire scene in Chicago

Gordon J. Nord, Jr. photo

firemen use E-ONE tower ladder to battle commercial fire at night

Gordon J. Nord, Jr. photo

Gordon J. Nord, Jr. photo

thanks Dan

more images from this fire can be viewed at FireScenes.Net

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Berwyn 2nd Alarm commercial fire, 1-16-14

Jan 17

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Images from Gordon J. Nord, Jr. of the 2-Alarm Fire on Cermak in Berwyn 1-16-14.

2-Alarm fire guts stores in Berwyn 1-16-14

Gordon J. Nord, Jr. photo

More images can be found HERE and HERE.

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Berwyn 2nd Alarm commercial fire , 1-16-14

Jan 16

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This from Steve Redick:

6212 Cermak at “oh my god it’s early” this am (04:59) … I suspect this fire was in for a bit before I heard about it. I arrived just as the roof went in It was snowing just enough so I really couldn’t use flash, so they are all available light shots. Oak Park tower, two Berwyn ladder pipes. Looked like the members were in both exposures and I suspect communication was minimal although I really don’t know for sure.

2-Alarm commercial fire in Berwyn 1-16-14

Steve Redick photo

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Stone Park 4-11 Alarm fire 5-28-13

May 28

Posted by Admin in Apparatus on-scene, Fire, Fire Service Photos, Fire Truck photos, Firefighters working | 19 Comments

This from Drew Gresik:

Hello everyone,

I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of submissions about this fire, so I’ll keep it short. Here are just a couple of more than 500 photos I took at this job in Stone Park. Fire was in a grocery store with occupied attached apartments, multiple master streams and handlines used. There were a lot of issues with bad hydrants as well, forcing command to request addition engines from many area departments. Thanks again guys.

From,

Drew Gresik

5 alarm massive grocery store fire in Stone Park

Drew Gresik photo

Images from Tim Olk

Tim Olk photo

Tim has a gallery with many more images.

Images from John Tulipano

John Tulipano photo

Chris Ranck sent this link to WGN helicopter footage

The Chicago Tribune has an article on the fire:

No injuries were reported following an extra-alarm fire that broke out in the potato chip aisle of a grocery store in west suburban Stone Park late this morning, authorities said.

The five-alarm blaze started about noon in the 1600 block of North Mannheim Road, according to a spokeswoman for Stone Park police.

As of about 1 p.m., the blaze was mostly out, but smoke and some flames were still visible from the 2-story brick building, which houses the Durango Supermercado on the first level and about four apartments on the upper level.

No injuries have been reported and the blaze burned through its roof, causing a partial collapse of the building.

Thick, black smoke roiled from the building at one point and about 15-20 fire departments remained on the scene.

Firefighters were pouring water on its roof and through one apartment window using two tower ladders. Several onlookers were standing outside gawking and it appeared that all occupants of the building had escaped.

Manager Jose Rivera was in his office doing paperwork when he heard the smoke alarm go off but he said it’s “very sensitive” so he thought it could just have been cooking smoke that activated it.
When he went to check it out, he found the potato chip aisle was on fire, and the chips were burning.

Rivera sprang into action, grabbed the fire extinguisher and tried to put it out.

“I ran for the extinguisher and managed to control it,’’ Rivera said.

He then raced through the rest of the store, telling the eight customers to “drop their possessions and leave,’’ Rivera said.

Rivera went back inside but the fire had worsened and there was nothing left in the extinguisher. Rivera said he knew he had to leave at that point.Fire officials on the scene said they were letting the fire burn, in a “free burn’’ and would not be able to go inside until it was safe.Rivera’s mother, Imelda Rivera, who is the owner of the store, was outside and appeared very shaken up.

Occupants of the second-story apartments on the building’s south side escaped without being hurt.

Rivera does not know what started the blaze.

Fire department officials said they were performing a “free burn’’ and will not go inside until it’s safe.

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4th Alarm house fire in Wadsworth 4-30-13 (pt 2)

May 2

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Scott Peterson was at Newport Township’s 4th Alarm fire on Monday in Wadsworth and has submitted many images which will incorporate several posts.

On Tuesday April 30,2013 the Newport FPD received calls of a fire @ 14541 Juniper Ct. Co’s arrived, found a very hvy volume of fire from the roof & interior of the home. The Zion ladder truck arrived and was immediately setup for water tower ops. Initially only one porta tank was available with most of the water going to the Zion truck. The alarm was quickly elevated from a the 2nd alarm on arrival to the 4th alarm. This brought numerous Eng’s & Tenders from MABAS Div 4 as well as MABAS Div 101 (Kenosha County WI). It appears Twin Lakes FD was the farthest Dept to respond. Eventually, 3 porta-tanks setup in series with a very successful continous flow of water with no loss. Considering the amount of fire conditions crews had on arrival and porta tanks and excellent job was done for knockdown. You’ll see in one photo the complete collapse/failure of a large section of the 2nd flr thru the C division window above the back deck.

Pics of the fire today, with apparatus and more overall scene shots to follow.

Zion ladder with master stream Scott Peterson photo

Fire consumes the second floor. Scott Peterson photo

View from the driveway, D side. Scott Peterson photo

C side floor collapse. Scott Peterson photo

D side. Scott Peterson photo

CD corner. Scott Peterson photo

Bristol company working the C sector. Scott Peterson photo

AB corner. Scott Peterson photo

Ladder pipe operations. Scott Peterson photo

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4th Alarm house fire in Wadsworth 4-30-13

Apr 30

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***9:20PM short video added – click SP-video link

This from Scott Peterson:

1st & 2nd Floor hvy involvement & thru roof on arrival.  No hydrants all porta-tanks. Once enough help got there large water supply   maintained. Homeowner was reportedly cooking on the back porch when something happened with the propane.

More to follow later in week.

Scott 

SP-video

Scott Peterson photo

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Commercial Fire in East Chicago IN 3-9-13

Mar 12

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This from Brad Steinweg:

Just wanted to submit some pics from Saturday night’s fire on Chicago ST in East Chicago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF2bJKNzi30

I have also included a link to youtube for the video footage I captured.

-Brad S.

GFD

Brad Steinweg photo

Tags: big fire in East Chicago 3-9-13, Brad Steinweg, commercial fire in East Chicago IN, East Chicago Fire Department, firefighters deploy elevated master streams, Hammond Fire Department

13-Alarm Fire in Burlington, WI 1-30-13 (pt4)

Feb 5

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Our thanks to Deputy Chief William Q. Rice for compiling this summary and sharing it:

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13-Alarm Fire in Burlington, WI 1-30-13 (pt2)

Jan 31

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Here is a video and some images from Larry Shapiro from the 13-alarm fire in Burlington WI overnight.

Big Bend, WI engine drafting from Echo Lake. Larry Shapiro photo

Another view of the Big Bend, WI engine drafting from Echo Lake. Larry Shapiro photo

Wauconda engine pumping in-line. Larry Shapiro photo

Pierce quint with elevated master stream

Wheatland, WI quint working in Sector D. Larry Shapiro photo

Pierce tower ladder with elevated master stream

Lake Geneva tower ladder working in Sector A. Larry Shapiro photo

E-ONE engine drafting from portable tank

Kansasville, WI engine drafting from a portable tank. Larry Shapiro photo

Lake Geneva tower ladder visible in the background being supplied by the Kansasville engine. Larry Shapiro photo

fire engines drafting from portable tanks

Kansasville and Burlington engines drafting in Sector A. Larry Shapiro photo

fire tanker dumping water into portable tank

A tanker dumping at the D Sector water supply. Larry Shapiro photo

large chemical storage tanks at industrial fire scene

Several of the chemical storage tanks that were threatened. Larry Shapiro photo

fire tender dumping water into portable tank

Another tanker working in Sector D. Larry Shapiro photo

Lyons Township, WI tanker turning around to access the portable tanks. Larry Shapiro photo

Kansasville Assistant Chief working Sector D. Larry Shapiro photo

Pierce top-mount engine pumping at winter fire

A Burlington engine pumping in-line to supply a master stream. Larry Shapiro photo

HME fire engine drafting from portable tank

Town of Burlington engine drafting from the portable tanks along the southside of the fire. Larry Shapiro photo

Larry Shapiro has a gallery with images from the Echo Lake Foods fire

13-Alarm Fire in Burlington, WI 1-30-13

Jan 31

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A large fire broke out just after 6PM last night at the Echo Lake Foods facility at 33102 South Honey Lake Road in Burlington, WI.

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The fire building was one of a series of six buildings inter-connected at the facility that processes the following according to the company website:

We are passionate in our commitment to producing the best quality egg products and breakfast-style entrees.

•  PRECOOKED EGG ENTREES
•  FRENCH TOAST & PANCAKES
•  CREPES AND BLINTZES
•  PRECOOKED SCRAMBLED AND DICED EGGS
•  FROZEN LIQUID EGGS
•  WAFFLES
•  MINI PANCAKES

As such, the facility has large amount of ammonia and liquid oxygen. As of 5AM Friday, (11 hours into the incident), NBC TMJ4 reported the following:

BURLINGTON – An eight-alarm fire has gone into its 13th hour of burning out of control Thursday morning at the Echo Lake Foods processing plant in Burlington.

“There still is active fire. It is not contained at this point,” said Fire Chief Richard Lodle during a 5 a.m. news conference Thursday which aired live on TODAY’S TMJ4.

More than 80 fire departments and 200 firefighters have given their assistance to the Burlington Fire Department.

The Burlington Police Department evacuated 10 homes and an apartment building, assisting about 50 people.

The fire broke out just after 6 p.m. Wednesday, and is at 33102 N. Honey Lake Road in Burlington, the site of Echo Lake Foods.

“The fire department discovered a significant fire upon arrival,” said Miller.

“The plant was successfully evacuated. There were no injuries to employees or, so far, to any firefighters.”

Hazardous materials teams came on scene because of ammonia and liquid oxygen tanks.

Meanwhile, Burlington’s fire chief is rotating in hundreds of firefighters from around southeastern Wisconsin, as far away as Milwaukee County.

“That’s why the large number of departments that we have called in, the large number of personnel that we’ve had…We’re not rotating out and rotating back in. When you rotate out, you go home.”

He also said they have not have much opportunity to enter the building and fight the fire from inside.

“The majority has been on a defensive mode. At this point, we’re attempting to do an interior attack, if we can get crews in.”

The company, founded in 1941, produces eggs and egg products, as well as other breakfast products. The factory has a long history in the Burlington area.

“This will affect the city greatly. We will attempt to help them rebuild and re-open the plant as soon as possible,” said Miller during the news conference.

“One of the largest employers…it’s going to be a loss of 300 jobs for a while.”

The complete article with photos is HERE.

The fire went to a 5th Alarm (as high as MABAS Alarms are rated) and then 8 separate inter-divisional alarms were requested with strike teams or task forces requested from other MABAS Divisions in Wisconsin and Illinois. (some of the MABAS Divisions that responded include 101, 102, 106, 4, 5)

Tim Olk and Larry Shapiro went to the incident roughly four hours after the initial alarm and have a video and images from the scene that will be posted later. The size of the scene, the bitter cold weather, and the hazardous smoke restricted their access to two of the four sectors.

The incident is located in an area that required tankers to shuttle water to portable tanks, where engines drafted to feed the multiple master streams. Some of the streams had to shutdown fairly often as the three or four portable tanks that were inter-connected would be depleted before they could be refilled. There were at least three such water supply sectors being managed at the fire scene. Eventually, a drafting operation was setup from Echo Lake along Milwaukee Avenue. Two engines and a quint worked to complete this task for engines supplying a master stream in Sector D.

The Chicago Tribune has an article HERE.

ABC news has an article HERE.

MyRacineCounty.com has an article.

Fox6now.com has an article with video.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel online has an article with a great overhead image from this morning.

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