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4-Alarm house fire in Barrington Hills – 1-30-17 (part 3)

Feb 1

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Video (part 2) from Larry Shapiro 4-Alarm house fire in Barrington Hills – 1-30-17

gallery of photos can be found at Shapirophotography.net

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4-Alarm house fire in Barrington Hills – 1-30-17 (part 2)

Jan 31

Posted by Admin in Apparatus on-scene, Fire Scene video, video of firefighters working | 3 Comments

Video (part 1) from Larry Shapiro 4-Alarm house fire in Barrington Hills – 1-30-17

Excerpts from Chicago.cbslocal.com:

A large house that was being expanded was a total loss Tuesday morning, after an immense fire in west suburban Barrington, while the family was overseas on vacation. An addition being built onto the 3,800-square-foot home appeared to be about 2,000 square feet.

By the time neighbors saw the fire, it had already grown quite large.

The fire started around 2 a.m. at a home at the end of a quarter-mile driveway on Cuba Road between Old Barrington Road and Route 59. A total of 30 suburban fire departments were called to the scene with more than 100 firefighters.

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Box Alarm for the house fire in Glencoe, 9-4-15

Sep 5

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This from Larry Shapiro:

Glencoe firefighters were called to 986 Skokie Ridge Drive around 8:30PM on Friday night (9/4/15) for smoke in the house. The alarm was upgraded to a Code 4 for the working fire on arrival and then to a Box Alarm for additional companies within 10 minutes. The fire was located in the basement and the walls at the rear of the house. There were no reported injuries. Here are some images and a brief video.

Pierce fire engine with hose off at night fire scene

Larry Shapiro photo

smoke from ranch house at night fire scene

Larry Shapiro photo

firemen climb ground ladder at house fire

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Larry Shapiro photo

firefighters at night fire scene with flash lights

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Pierce heavy rescue squad at night fire scene with light tower

Larry Shapiro photo

white fire engine at night fire scene with equipment

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Detached garage fire in Prospect Heights, 5-3-15

May 4

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This from Larry Shapiro:

The Prospect Heights FD received multiple calls for a detached garage on fire at 240 E. Camp McDonald Road Sunday night (5/3/15). Flames could be seen from Station 9, less than a block away. The three-car, 1 1/2-story garage was fully-involved and was reported to have a 55-gallon drum of racing fuel and acetylene torches inside.

Engine 9 dropped two lines and Tanker 9 setup to nurse the engine. Engine 39 dropped a supply line to a hydrant approximately 1/3 of a mile away as Long Grove Tanker 55 arrived to continue nursing Engine 9. The bulk of the fire was knocked down quickly, and the other tankers were released from the staging area.

When I arrived the roof had collapsed and there was still some visible fire.

firemen pull hose from an engine at night

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fire department tenders nursing an engine

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Larry Shapiro photo

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Code 4 fire in Glencoe, 4-30-15 (more)

May 1

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Video by Larry Shapiro from the fire in Glencoe (4/30/15)

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Garage fire in Wheeling, 3-17-15

Mar 17

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This from Larry Shapiro:

Wheeling firefighters were called to 697 S. Merle for a fully-involved, detached garage fire. A header was visible while companies were en route and multiple 9-1-1 calls were received. The alarm was upgraded to the Code 4 for the working fire bringing mutual and auto-aid from Buffalo Grove, Prospect heights, Long Grove, and Arlington Heights.

Here are several images from the scene plus a video.

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fireman gets ready to fight fully engulfed garage fire

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fireman pulls large diameter (LDH) hoe off an engine

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fireman pulls large diameter (LDH) supply line to a hydrant

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Larry Shapiro photo

Wheeling FD Luverne fire engine with lines off

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an image from a reader:

image for Chicagoareafire.com

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3-Alarm fire in Rolling Meadows, 3-4-15 (part 4)

Mar 6

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Video from the fatal 3-Alarm fire in Rolling Meadows 3/4/15

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Chicago working fire, 11-14-14 (more)

Nov 17

Posted by Admin in Apparatus on-scene, Fire, Fire Scene photos | 17 Comments

This from Steve Redick of the Chicago Still Alarm at 5701 N Newcastle:

Arrived about 15 minutes into this job and was greeted with fire venting from the roof. Companies made the attic and hit the fire from below in pretty short order. Some items of interest … note the positioning of truck 55, some call this beaching … seemed to work very well here. Also note the ground ladder placement covering all sides of the structure. The images of squad 7 are of the same rig used in the show Chicago Fire. The 7 on the door looks like a good tape job to me and makes me think they’re gonna have this rig for a while. An interesting job in a normally very quiet area.

Steve