Early images from the Box Alarm at 2847 Old Higgins Road in unincorporated Cook County. The building was a vacant, commercial structure formerly the home of a concrete company.
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Archive for August 24th, 2015
Excerpts from the ChicagoTribune.com:
Three people were hurt, one critically, in a fire Sunday morning … that fire broke out about 7:50 a.m. in a fourth-floor unit in the 1000 block of West Catalpa Avenue in the Edgewater Beach neighborhood, Chicago Fire Department District Chief Jeffrey Horan said.
When firefighters arrived at the scene, they encountered smoke and flames and saw several people at upper-floor windows, Horan said. Firefighters used ladders to rescue one of the victims and to quickly contain the blaze, which damaged the top two floors of the five-story brick apartment building about two blocks west of Sheridan Road.
No firefighters were injured.
“These guys did a great job,” Horan said.
Images from Steve Redick of Glenside FPD apparatus
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Audio from the 2-11 Alarm fire and EMS Plan II at 1055 W. Catalpa on 8/23/15.
