This from reader Eric Haak:
Still & Box Alarm @ 47th and Knox on June 27th. Engine 34 pulled up just before 1:45 pm to the Right Away Pallet Company and within 2 minutes called for the box. The area involved was a 125 x 125 storage lot stacked tight with 10-foot tall columns of pallets. Engine 34 fed Tower Ladder 54 inside the company’s yard while Truck 52 pulled into a lot to the west of the involved area and was fed by Engine 123. Tower Ladder 39 set up in the empty parking lot to the south of the pallet yard and was fed by Engine 32. A total of 5 lines were used to bring the blaze under control and 2-2-5 struck out the box @ 2:38.
Heavy fire from the Right Away Pallet Company at 47th & Knox. Eric Haak photo
Engine 34 supplied Tower Ladder 54 at the Still & Box Alarm. Eric Haak photo
Tower Ladder 39 was deployed from an adjacent yard. Eric Haak photo
Firefighters change the tip on the waterway of Truck 52 prior to raising the main. Eric Haak photo
Engine 32 was supplying Tower Ladder 39. Eric Haak photo
Truck 52 goes to work inside the pallet yard. Eric Haak photo
A battalion chief climbs Tower Ladder 39 to observe the operations. Eric Haak photo
Hank Sajovic also went to the scene and submitted a few images.
Tower Ladder 54 working the fire. Hank Sajovic photo
Comm Van 2-7-3 was at the fire. Hank Sajovic photo
Stacks of charred pallets. Hank Sajovic photo
Companies staged on 47th Street. Hank Sajovic photo
