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Chicago 5-11 Alarm + 2 specials 1-22-13 (pt 5)

Jan 23

Posted by Admin in Apparatus on-scene, Fire, Fire Service News, Fire Service Photos, Fire Truck photos, Firefighters working | 12 Comments

Tim Olk submitted several images from the fire on Tuesday. Tim’s images show the earliest on-scene images as compared to the other contributors.

Chicago Engine 8 from Chinatown covered with ice. Tim Olk photo

A firefighter coated with ice from the spray of the master streams. Tim Olk photo

Chicago Engine 47 pumping at the scene of the 5-11 Alarm warehouse fire. Tim Olk photo

A battalion chief surveys the fire from the turntable of Truck 18. Tim Olk photo

Silhouette of a firefighter on Truck 18’s ladder. Tim Olk photo

A line is taken to the roof of an adjacent building. Tim Olk photo

Truck 18 on the Ashland Avenue overpass is setup to an exposure building. Tim Olk photo

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Tower Ladder 39 surrounded by flying embers hits the fire with a master stream. Tim Olk photo

Phenomenal fire fully involving the entire structure. TIm Olk photo

Tim has a gallery with substantially more images.

Additionally, there are several images taken today (Wednesday) as companies remain on the scene.

Chicago reserve Snorkel on Ashland Avenue in front of the ice covered ruins of the 5-11 Alarm fire. Tim Olk photo

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A tower ladder works at the ruins of the 5-11 alarm fire. Tim Olk photo

Another tower ladder working the day after the fire was detected. Tim Olk photo

There is a separate gallery with follow-up images.

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Chicago 5-11 Alarm + 2 specials 1-22-13 (pt 3)

Jan 23

Posted by Admin in Fire, Firefighters working, Firefighting Video | Comments off

Larry Shapiro has posted a video from the 5-11 +2 specials

Tim Olk visite the ruins today and submitted these images showing some of the ice sculpture at the scene.

Frozen box truck at the scene of the 5-11. Tim Olk photo

Another truck cab that was covered with ice and is located behind the fire building. Tim Olk photo

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Chicago 5-11 Alarm + 2 specials 1-22-13 (pt 2)

Jan 23

Posted by Admin in Apparatus on-scene, Fire, Fire Service News, Fire Service Photos, Fire Truck photos, Firefighters working | Comments off

From Josh Boyajian:

Here are my pictures from last night!

Tower Ladder 5 was in a spare apparatus last night. They were at the corner of Sectors 1 and 4. Josh Boyajian photo

Sector 1 fully involved. Josh Boyajian photo

firefighter putting water onto huge fire

A deck gun in use from Engine 49. Josh Boyajian photo

A view looking at Sector 1 from the Ashland Avenue Frontage Road. Josh Boyajian photo

A multi-versal works by Engines 49 and 8, both of which are operating deck guns. Josh Boyajian photo

Engine 29 from deploys a deck gun at 36th Street and the west frontage road of Avenue. Josh Boyajian photo

A view from underneath the Ashland Avenue bridge looking down 38th Street after a portion of the fire building collapsed. Josh Boyajian photo

From Jeff Rudolph:

Some pics from last night, Jeff R

Huge fire seen in Sector 3 well after the interior collapsed. Jeff Rudolph photo

A firefighter from Engine 8 coated with ice. Jeff Rudolph photo

Squad 1A with a master stream in Sector 3. Jeff Rudolph photo

Truck 33 with an elevated master stream in Sector 3. Jeff Rudolph photo

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Engine 8 icing up in Sector 1. Jeff Rudolph photo

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Firefighters on Truck 33 in the rear. Jeff Rudolph photo

ABC Chicago has an article HERE.

A Chicago Fire Department spokesman said a southside warehouse that caught fire Tuesday night will be a total loss.

“Totally involved. … This is a major fire,” read a message posted to Twitter at about 9:50 p.m. Moments later there was a message that a portion of the structure had collapsed.

Firefighters were in “defensive mode” in attacking the fire in a building on the 3700 block of South Ashland Avenue, spokesman Larry Langford said.

But despite his initial, confident remark that the fire would be isolated, flames spread to at least one nearby building. The owner of a printing company, at 3801 S. Ashland Ave., was on the scene and expressed concerns about chemicals inside that could explode.

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