Images from Tim Olk of the 3-alarm fire in Rolling Meadows Wednesday night (3/4/15).
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tags: 1 dead from 3-alarm blaze at Rolling Meadows apartment fire, American LaFrance fire engine at night fire scene, fire trucks at winter fire scene, heavy fire destroys apartment building in Rolling Meadows, heavy smoke at winter fire scene, night fire scene, Rolling Meadows Fire Department, Tim Olk
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#1 by Dan on March 5, 2015 - 11:57 PM
To be fair dispatch missed the request by command to raise the box to the second level 20 minutes or so after it was made. Listening to the feed, dispatch let command know they were 30 minutes into their incident and command asked where his fourth truck was, since he asked for the box to the second level 10 minutes in and that’s when dispatch did tone it out…
#2 by Mike on March 5, 2015 - 6:39 PM
Meadows is good for one of these apartment fires every year. And the outcome is usually the same
#3 by Operator 57 on March 5, 2015 - 4:49 PM
It may be time that Rolling Meadows look to the Bloomingdale Fire Protection District for advice on how to require all the condo and apartment complex’s to retrofit all their building with sprinkler systems , if this complex had sprinklers in their building the fire would have been confined to one unit instead of the disaster that occurred.