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Chicago 3-11 Alarm fire 12-27-11

Dec 28

Posted by bgshap in Apparatus on-scene, Fire, Fire Department News | Comments off

Chicago companies were dispatched to a reported fire Tuesday evening at 2626 W. Roosevelt Road, a vacant, block long building bounded by Washtenaw and the railroad tracks. Engine 107 whose house is around the corner was first on the scene and reported fire on the second floor. Battalion 4 requested a still and box alarm reporting a two-story, large brick warehouse. Early on the fire fight went defensive with elevated master streams and a deck gun from Engine 107. The fire was upgraded to a 2-11 within about 20 minutes and a 3-11 was requested a half hour later by 2-1-22 when there were no longer companies in the staging area. A Level I Haz Mat was also requested after the 3-11 was in. Tower Ladder 5, Tower Ladder 10 and Squad 1’s Snorkel were working with master streams on Roosevelt Road. Roughly an hour into the fire companies began moving inside to hit the remaining spot fires before the fire was struck out between around 9:30PM.

Chicago 3-11 alarm fire 12-27-11 at 2626 W Roosevelt Road

Engine 107, the Still Alarm engine, uses a deck gun in Sector 1 on Roosevelt Road. Larry Shapiro photo

Firefighters from Squad 1 bed the Snorkel so they can reposition it elsewhere. Larry Shapiro photo

Tower Ladder 5, the only American LaFrance/LTI on the roster, sits near the intersection of Roosevelt and Talman. Larry Shapiro photo

Looking east down Roosevelt, Truck 7, Tower 10, Tower 5 and Squad 1 are positioned in front of the building. Larry Shapiro photo

Engine 109 at Roosevelt and Washtenaw is supplying companies in front of the fire building. Larry Shapiro photo

After repositioning the Snorkel, the boom goes up at the east end of the building by Engine 107. Larry Shapiro photo

After the master streams hit the bulk of the fire, companies in the rear enter the building to deploy hand lines. Larry Shapiro photo

Light Wagon 9-1-5 was setup in the rear of the building and provided light so companies could work safely. Larry Shapiro photo

Command Van 2-7-1 was parked east of the viaduct on Roosevelt Road. Larry Shapiro photo

Engine 23 was supplying companies from east of the viaduct on Roosevelt Road. Larry Shapiro photo

Engine 18 was on a hydrant at Roosevelt and Campbell Avenue. Larry Shapiro photo

Tim Olk and Larry Shapiro went to the scene. Tim reported early on that smoke was heavy and banking low on Roosevelt Road. There was not much fire to be seen and photographed.

Larry has a gallery that can be found HERE.

Tags: 3-11 alarm fire, Chicago 3-11 Alarm Fire 12-27-11, Chicago Command Van 2-7-1, Chicago Engine 107, Chicago Engine 109, Chicago Engine 18, Chicago Engine 23, Chicago Fire Department, Chicago Light Wagon 9-1-5, Chicago Tower 10, Chicago Tower Ladder 5, Command Light, large industrial building fire in Chicago, Larry Shapiro, Tim Olk, vacant building fire on Roosevelt Road

Lakemoor apartment fire goes to 3 alarms

Oct 15

Posted by bgshap in Fire | Comments off

The Fox Lake Fire Department received calls for a fire in an apartment building in the 500 block of Autumn Boulevard in Lakemoor around 11PM last night. Arriving roughly four minutes later, companies found fire through the roof of the three-story, light-weight constructed building. A structural collapse occurred shortly thereafter. This was a 3-11 for tankers and a Box Alarm for the structural collapse with at least 19 fire departments represented on the scene.

Four tower ladders went to work (Fox Lake, McHenry Township, Wauconda, and Round Lake) in addition to several handlines and ground level master streams.

Interesting apparatus notes from the incident include the following:

Countryside and Grayslake both had their new apparatus at the fire.
Several of the units on-scene were equipped with Nightscan or Command Light towers including engines from Antioch, Grayslake, and Round Lake plus squads from Fox Lake and Barrington.
At one point late into the fire, the Fox Lake Tower Ladder (Spartan/3D/Nova Quintech) which was in sector 1, deployed the articulating jib of the fly-section of the ladder over the building
McHenry Township had four units on the scene: engine, tower, tanker and squad
Round Lake had three units on the scene; engine, tower, and tanker
Lake Villa had three units on the scene; engine, tanker, and ambulance
Grayslake had an engine and tanker at the scene
Lake Bluff responded with an engine … probably the farthest distance travelled

Antioch's American LaFrance/Alexis engine with a Nightscan lighting up the scene. Larry Shapiro photo

Fox Lake Fire Department Spartan Alexis squad

This Fox Lake squad has two light towers capable of providing enough light for any scene. Larry Shapiro photo

Countryside put this new tanker into service this summer. It is shown here working at it's second tanker box already. In the background, Round Lake's engine is lighting up the porta-tanks with a Command Light mounted on the cab roof. Larry Shapiro photo

Fox Lake Fire Department Nova Quintech Sky Arm

The Nova Quintech Sky Arm tower ladder from Fox Lake with the jib section articulating down from the main ladder. Larry Shapiro photo

Of the 19 departments represented at this fire, chicagoareafire.com has the following departments posted to the website:

Buffalo Grove
Cary
Countryside
Lake Bluff
Lake Forest
Lake Villa
Libertyville
Long Grove
McHenry Township
Mundelein
Newport Township
Wauconda

These are not yet represented on the site:

Antioch
Barrington
Fox Lake
Grayslake
Lake Villa
Nunda Rural
Round Lake

Larry Shapiro has a gallery of images from this fire which can be viewed HERE.

Tags: 3D, Antioch, apartment, Barrington, Command Light, Fire, fire department, Fox Lake, Grayslake, Lake Bluff, Lakemoor, light-weight construction, McHenry Township, Nightscan, Nova Quintech, Round Lake, Shapiro, Spartan, Wauconda

Oak Park new engine update

Sep 18

Posted by bgshap in Fire Department News, New Delivery | 3 Comments

The officer's side of the body module which is ready to mount onto the chassis. Photo by Ron Kobyleski

Oak Park is on-track to receive their two new HME Ahrens Fox engines in mid-October. Both engines are on HME 1871 chassis with 3,000-watt Command Lights nested on the roof of the cabs. (a big aide for fire photographers at night-time scenes) Each will have a 1,500-GPM pump, 500 gallons of water, 20 gallons of Class A and 30 gallons of Class B foam. Oak Park Battalion Chief Ron Kobyleski supplied the in-progress photos.