2-11 Alarm fire in Chicago – March 10, 2014 (more)

This from Steve Redick:

This job occurred in the wee hours of Monday in the 2900 block of Irving Park Rd in Chicago. A large commercial building, that had a large bowstring truss in the rear as well as a flat roof in the front. I arrived just as the fire was breaking through the roof. This was a very tough fire to shoot as the weather was light rain, heavy smoke hanging low, and a friggin’ center median planter with lots of trees. Also the Snorkel and one of the towers were in spares.

Two towers and a Snorkel were set up early, and there were some communication issues as well. There are a couple of shots of a company using a big line at the mouth of the alley to protect a large frame dwelling. Note the shots of truck 13 depict their new Crimson (ERV or whatever they call it now) aerial. This fire was in for a few hours and companies were there til around lunch time. Here is a sampling of the images.

Steve Redick

Steve Redick photo

A different assortment of Steve’s images are on firescenes.net

A gallery with more images can be viewed at KSC711.smugmug.com

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#1 by Chuck on March 16, 2014 - 4:37 PM

Funny that the business in Exposure 4 was CityWide Fire Equipment…..lol

#2 by Tim Danner on March 13, 2014 - 12:08 PM

I agree, 13 looks like it is leaning? Crown of the road? I did hear that Spartan new logo will be a dry erase board put on every truck to accommodate future name changes.

#3 by Chris S on March 12, 2014 - 7:14 PM

Why does T13 look like it’s tipping over?

#4 by fmddc1 on March 12, 2014 - 4:37 PM

Hey Steve, the call them Spartan’s for now. But that might change again……as many times as they have changed their name…LOL! Great shots as always sir!

#5 by grumpy grizzly on March 12, 2014 - 3:23 PM

it seems they are getting a lot of spares, which is outta their control The guys who photo do a great job, but forget the bicycle lanes and get some new rigs!!