Glenview Engine 13 and Truck 14 are deployed on one of the narrow streets in the Sunset Village Mobile Home Park. A long lead out for a supply line is visible running down the street. Tim Olk photo
After 2PM today, the Glenview Fire Department received calls for a mobile home fire at Sunset Village on Waukegan Road. Firefighters arrived to find a double-wide mobile home well involved in fire. According to the Chicago Tribune:
A woman in her 50s was rescued from the home after sustaining smoke inhalation and burns, and she was taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge where her condition had stabilized, Globerger said. Her injuries did not appear life-threatening, he said. Firefighters later found that two cats died inside the home.
Glenview firefighters prepare to enter the home to perform overhaul after the fire was knocked down. Tim Olk photo
Glenview was assisted by Northfield and Morton Grove at the fire scene. The Tribune has an article HERE, and the Sun-Times Media, Pioneer Press article is HERE which includes the following:
A woman who fell asleep while smoking suffered burns and smoke inhalation Friday afternoon in a fire that damaged her home on the 00-100 block of South Branch in the Sunset Village mobile home park, fire officials said.
A neighbor and his cousin pulled the woman from the home after she collapsed while searching for her cats.
Glenview Fire Chief Wayne Globerger said firefighters didn’t bother trying to hook fire hoses to the undersized hydrants along South Branch. They began pumping water from two fire trucks and laid another line about 800 feet to a hydrant in the Valley Lo subdivision directly south of Sunset Village.
“Because of where (the fire) was at, I get an extra engine from Glenview and an extra engine from Northfield just for the water and the manpower,” Globerger said. “We have (area hydrants) all mapped and we know where to break the fence … until we get some water someday” in Sunset Village.
Tim Olk submitted several images from the scene.
Northfield firefighters work in the rear of the mobile home after the fire was knocked down. Tim Olk photo
Northfield Deputy Chief Tom Burke takes a break from pulling ceiling to change his bottle. Tim Olk photo
A Glenview firefighter washes down portions of the trailer's interior during the overhaul phase. Tim Olk photo
