2-Alarm house fire in Long Grove 9-16-16

This from Larry Shapiro:

The Long Grove FPD was dispatched with mutual aid companies to the area of Old McHenry Road and Cuba Road Friday night (9/16/16) just after 9:30PM for a reported house fire. The location is just blocks from the fire station and the Long Grove units were in the area within minutes of the call. They found a vacant house in disrepair off of Shagbark Lane with heavy fire.

The Code 3 dispatch was quickly upgraded to a Code 4 for the working fire. Nine units were due on the initial dispatch including three tankers and another 12 units with five tenders were due on the Code 4 along with several chief officers.

Long Grove Squad 55 and Tanker 55 used 4,000 gallons of water which was quickly supplemented by another 3,200 gallons from the Wauconda tanker and 1,000 gallons from Lake Zurich Engine 4 as a water supply operation was implemented with a tanker shuttle.

Eventually a Box Alarm and then a 2nd Alarm for tenders only brought multiple additional resources to the scene.

Larry Shapiro photo

firefighter with hose line at huge house fire

Larry Shapiro photo

firefighters climb engine at major fire scene

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Grayslake FD tender dumps water at fire scene

Larry Shapiro photo

Elk Grove Township FD tender dumps water at fire scene

Larry Shapiro photo

Additional images can be viewed at shapirophotography.net and a video will follow.

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5 Comments (and 2 trackbacks)

#1 by thefiremang on September 18, 2016 - 12:04 PM

This fire should have been treated like a Detroit fire, no exposures, over 50% involved, abandoned for years, just let it burn to the ground, and you would of saved all those resources and pounding of the equipment. A couple of lines to play water to keep embers down and those rigs could have been back to their prospective depts protecting their taxpayers. North suburbs really abuse the system.
#2 by Chris Peterson on September 18, 2016 - 7:42 AM

WOW!!
#3 by Shane on September 17, 2016 - 2:40 PM

FFPM571… that’s not the case at all…. They had no hydrants out there and they needed tenders which bring water. Now if as a FF/PM you know that you need to change crews out so the full box was probably requested for manpower. They only did the 2nd alarm for tenders only, initially they called a box for tenders only but when they requested the 2nd alarm for tenders only they also filled out the full box.
#4 by ffpm571 on September 17, 2016 - 12:25 PM

So an vacant, long abandoned home with no exposures gets a 2-11 so everyone gets to play.
- #5 by Mike on September 17, 2016 - 6:42 PM
  
  Your comment is great. I seem to recall someone with the same name as yours saying others should keep their negative comments about departments to themselves and let people enjoy this forum…have a nice day.
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