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3-11 Alarm fire with Mayday in Chicago, 4-5-23

Apr 5

Posted by Admin in Fire Department News, Firefighter injured | 3 Comments

From CFD Media on Twitter:

Still and box high rise 1212 north lake shore drive fire on 27

Plan one at the still and box 1212 LSD

2 11 1212 north LSD. Water on the fire on 27 one injured firefighter.

Update. Injured firefighter in good shape. We have lost all elevators. Water on fire main body of fire is out. Some hot spots.

Second injured firefighter. Details will follow. Smoke still heavy on 27

Mayday has been called at the 2 11

EMS PLAN TWO AT THE HIGHRISE 1212 LSD. Mayday for firefighter down. 

3 11 with mayday 1212 LSD. 

Firefighter critically injured. At 311 MAYDAY

Firefighter has been removed from building. Very critical to hospital.

THE MADAY IS SECURED. ONE CFD MEMBER VERY CRITICAL TO NORTHWESTERN

Crews requesting more hose lines firefighters walking hose up to 26 floor. Elevators out of service.

 

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Chicago FD Firefighter Jermaine Pelt LODD 4-4-23

Apr 4

Posted by Admin in Fire Department News, LODD | 3 Comments

Excerpts from abc7chicago.com:

Chicago Firefighter Jermaine Pelt died after an extra-alarm fire in the West Pullman neighborhood Tuesday morning. The beloved father of two has been with the department for 18 years, serving the Roseland community.

Just celebrating his 49th birthday last month, Pelt was with his crew early Tuesday morning fighting a fire near 120th and Wallace streets. The fire started in a home and quickly spread to the adjacent buildings. That’s where Pelt was was on a hose line inside the home when conditions worsened and he and his crew had to get out. When his lieutenant didn’t see him come out, they knew something was wrong. A mayday was called and he was quickly found near the hose line and brought out for treatment.

“The chief asked us if we wanted to be out of service and we said no, because this is what Jermaine would do. Jermaine wouldn’t take the day off,” said CFD Capt. Rory Ohse.

Pelt recently walked his daughter down the aisle, and she is on her honeymoon right now. She got the news on Tuesday morning, and is rushing home. His family took part in his procession to the medical examiners office. Pelt also left behind a 6-year-old. He was a soft-spoken man with a heart of gold, who was also a registered nurse and a paramedic. For the last two years, he volunteered at the academy as an instructor.

Two other firefighters had minor injuries and are OK. Two adults and two children were displaced after the fire, all of them are OK.

The fire investigation team is working to determine a cause of the fire.

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Still and Box Alarm fire in Chicago, 4-2-23

Apr 4

Posted by Admin in Fire Scene video | Comments off

From Steve Redick:

2017 N Mendell early Sunday am

 

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Fatal crash in Chicago, 3-21-23

Mar 22

Posted by Admin in Fire Department News | 1 Comment

Excerpts from nbcchicago.com:

An elderly woman died and at least six others, including two children, were wounded in a crash on Chicago’s Northwest Side Tuesday evening in the 3400 block of West Peterson that involved at least two vehicles — a KIA SUV driven by a 46-year-old man and a Saturn sedan driven by an 18-year-old man.

Police said the 46-year-old was traveling eastbound on Peterson with five passengers when the vehicle was struck by the 18-year-old as they entered the intersection.

Fire officials initially said a total of eight victims were taken to area hospitals, with seven of them in serious-to-critical condition, but police later said seven people were injured.

Among them was a 78-year-old woman, who was taken to St. Francis Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. She was identified as Zainab Suboh of Highland, Indiana.

The 46-year-old driver was taken to Lutheran General in fair condition, along with a 36-year-old woman. An 81-year-old passenger was also taken to St. Francis Hospital in critical condition. Two children, ages 3 and 7, were transported to Lurie Children’s Hospital in fair condition.

The 18-year-old driver of the Saturn sedan was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in fair condition.

The Major Accidents unit is investigating the crash.

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2-11 Alarm fire in Chicago, 3-21-23

Mar 21

Posted by Admin in Fire Department News, Firefighter injured | Comments off

Excerpts from abc7chicago.com:

An extra-alarm fire broke out around 3:38 a.m. on Tuesday in a two-story residence in the 2200-block of East 100th Street in Chicago. All residents were accounted for, but four firefighters were injured when the second floor collapsed.

Two firefighters were caught by the collapse. One was able to self-evacuate while the other was trapped. Both made it out safely, but four were transported to local hospitals with minor injuries.

As the Red Cross tries to lend a hand and as fire investigators sift through the rubble, neighbors who once called this home are now left without one.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation this morning. 

From ChicagoFD Media on Twitter:

 

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Chicago FD updates radio signatures – Chicago Fire Department Memo M-25-23

Mar 17

Posted by Admin in Fire Department News | 4 Comments

#chicagoareafire.com; #ChicagoFD; #CFDMemoM-25-23; #CFDsignatures;

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Multiple fatal fire in Chicago, 3-7-23 (more)

Mar 15

Posted by Admin in Fatal fire | 2 Comments

Excerpts from nbcchicago.com:

In the last hours of her life, Summer Day-Stewart’s family held on to one consolation. Plans were made to donate her organs and those of her three young children who died in a house fire last week. Doctors said at least eight life-saving transplants would be performed.

Summer’s husband Walter, a Chicago firefighter, gave his wife CPR, but fire officials said her injuries and those of their children were too severe. 

Ezra, the middle child, had been diagnosed with autism and did not speak. But he always had a smile on his face.

Emory, the youngest, was just a toddler but already loved fire trucks and wanted to be just like his father.

Day-Stewart had close friends across the country, and memorials to the family are in the works in Chicago, Oregon, and California. 

The Chicago firefighters union is collecting donations for the family as well.

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Chicago Fire Department news

Mar 14

Posted by Admin in Fire Department News | Comments off

#chicagoareafire.com; #ChicagoFD; #hiring; #paramedics

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CFD sells surplus squad

Mar 13

Posted by Admin in Fire Department News, fire engine for sale | 8 Comments

I noticed 5-1-3 for sale within the scrap sale. 

#chicagoareafire.com; #ChicagoFD; #ambulanceforsale;

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Chicago Fire Department news

Mar 12

Posted by Admin in Fire Service News | Comments off

Excerpts from nbcchicago.com:

After hearing emotional testimony from Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, an Illinois House committee unanimously approved legislation Thursday that would grant Chicago police officers and firefighters full benefits if they become disabled from COVID-19.

Mendoza’s brother, a Chicago police detective who lost his kidneys due to a coronavirus infection in late 2020, was denied duty disability benefits that would have provided him with 75% of his salary and provided free health care. Instead, he was granted only ordinary benefits, which paid him 50% of his salary and no health insurance.

The City of Chicago Police Pension Board decided that Sgt. Joaquin Mendoza didn’t prove he’d gotten the disease through a particular act of duty though the board’s own doctor said he likely was infected on the job. In February 2022, the pension board voted 4-3 to deny the sergeant a duty disability pension.

According to his attorneys, the board later also rejected a duty disability pension for another officer whose lungs were damaged by the coronavirus — and least 18 other officers have similar requests pending.

Mendoza’s former boss who was an Area 5 detectives commander, had testified before the pension board that the sergeant contracted the virus on the job and deserved a duty disability. Additionally, a former chief of detectives who was a member of the police pension board during Mayor Richard M. Daley’s administration, claims that he heard from sources that “the order came down from City Hall that no one is to get a duty disability for COVID.”

The House committee voted 9-0 in favor of the measure, which goes now to the full House.

Under previous legislation, cops and firefighters who die because of COVID are presumed to have contracted the illness as a result of an act of duty, entitling them to full benefits. But that law didn’t extend to those who survive the disease.

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