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Vintage 5-11 Alarm fire in Chicago, 4-14-69

Mar 1

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This from Steve Redick:

Going through my dad’s old scrapbooks I happened on the clippings for this job. A 5-11 and 1 Special for the grain elevator 506 W 51st Street, April of 1969. This was arguably the last wooden grain elevator left in the city. It was situated in a rail yard with no water and no real access for companies. The articles explain this as well.

This is a very special memory for me as I went to this fire with my dad. I was 9 at the time and it was the biggest fire I had ever seen. The radiant heat was extreme. Dad put me on the turntable of truck 18, a tractor-trailer FWD. I had just gotten my Kodak instamatic camera and was snapping away. Dad told me it was gonna collapse soon and when it did it was gonna get really really hot. I stuck my head out for just a second and grabbed a quick shot. It was my first real fire photo.

News clipping from a historic Chicago fire

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News clipping from an historic fire that destroyed a grain elevator in Chicago 4-14-69

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News clipping from an historic fire that destroyed a grain elevator in Chicago

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Photo from a 5-11 and 1 Special for the grain elevator 506 W 51st Street, April of 1969

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Historic 5-11 Alarm fire at the Ford City Shopping Center in Chicago, 4-2-68

Feb 29

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This from Steve Redick:

April 2, 1968, just days before the riots erupted. A 5-11 and 3 or 4 specials for a fire in a massive building. The press coverage with the spectacular large format cover photo is sadly a thing of the past now. I have enclosed one of Dave Fornell’s images from that day.

News clipping from an historic fire that destroyed the Ford City shopping center

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News clipping from an historic fire that destroyed the Ford City shopping center 4-2-68

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News clipping from an historic fire that destroyed mcCormick Place in Chicago on February 13, 1971

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historic Chicago fire apparatus battle huge fire

Dave Fornell photo

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Vintage Chicago fire scene: 3-11 alarm in 1970

Jan 13

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More newspaper articles from Steve Redick of a fire in December of 1970, a 3-11 alarm at 316 N Michigan … lower level

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Historic 5-11 alarm fire in Chicago, 2-9-65

Jan 4

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More historic clippings from the Warren Redick collection: 5-11 alarm at Gotham Industries, 540 Orleans, February 9, 1965

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Tags: 5-11 Alarm fire in Chicago in 1965, classic newspaper clippings of Chicago fire scene, Elliott Robinson, Gotham Industries warehouse fire February 1965, historic Chicago newspaper article, historic fire in Chicago, historic fire scene photos, Howard Borvig, Phillip Leavitt, Steve Redick, Warren Redick

Vintage Chicago warehouse fire in 1965

Jan 2

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This from Steve Redick:

One of the things I inherited from my dad was his massive scrapbook of fire clippings which he had worked in from the 1940s onward. It is an amazing collection, but unfortunately a good portion has been damaged in storage. This stuff needs to be shared, so that is my intention. These first pages are from a tremendous extra alarm at the Steinburg Baum warehouse, 1705 N Throop Street, September 30, 1965. They mention several fireboats used but there are no photos in the articles.

Steve

An extra alarm fire in Chicago at the Steinburg Baum warehouse, 1705 N Throop Street, September 30, 1965. Warren Redick collection

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Tags: classic newspaper clippings of Chicago fire scene, historic Chicago newspaper article, historic fire in Chicago, historic fire scene photos, Steinburg Baum warehouse, Steve Redick, Warren Redick

Vintage Chicago fire scenes from 1966

Dec 31

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This from Steve Redick:

Scanned in a couple of more incidents …

January 11, 1966 4-11 alarm 28 E Jackson

January 10, 1966 4-11 106th & Calumet River Grain Elevator

what a coupla days!!!

Steve

January 11, 1966 4-11 alarm 28 E Jackson. Warren Redick collection

January 10, 1966 a 4-11 Alarm fire in Chicago at 106th & Calumet River in a Grain Elevator. Warren Redick collection

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Vintage Chicago 5-11 alarm fire scene, 1-28-65

Dec 28

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This from Steve Redick:

5-11 2209 Lumber 1-28-65.

Interesting article about some suburban fires as well

historic news story of huge fire in Chicago

From the collection of Warren Redick.

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Chicago 5-11 at 1520 S Indiana in 1974 (more)

May 5

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This follow up from Steve Redick relates to a rent post Chicago 5-11 at 1520 S Indiana in 1974:

I sent this out a while back and just got some additional info to share. Old time fan Chuck Bleck was working in the insurance industry at the time and prepared an extensive diagram of the fire and was kind enough to share it. Chuck also sent a copy of the report in Turnout magazine from the fire as well as some other good old CFD info.

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information from historic 5-11 Alarm fire in Chicago

map by Chuck Bleck

** a note to our younger readers who might be wondering about the odd looking type of the two summaries above … they were created with a typewriter

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Vintage Chicago fire scene …

Apr 23

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This from Steve Redick:

I just returned from Arkansas … I brought back the rest of my father’s fire collection and was surprised to find this. A 5-11 and 4 Specials at 32nd Place & Bensen. I remember dad took this in while I was at school, and I hadn’t seen this photo for many years. I believe the snorkel setting up may have been SS-1. Most of the shots of this fire I have seen are black & white.