Posts Tagged Lincolnshire-Riverwoods FPD Engine 52

Crash with entrapment in Wheeling, 8-9-20

Wheeling police and firefighters were sent to 189 South Milwaukee Avenue around 4:15PM on Sunday (8/9/20) for a reported motor vehicle accident with entrapment. The location was within blocks of Wheeling Station 24 and the battalion chief was on the scene quickly. He reported a one-car MVA with extensive damage and entrapment after the car had apparently crossed two lanes of traffic before striking a retaining wall at 189 S Milwaukee and then completely sheered off the front porch of a building at 213 S. Milwaukee before coming to a stop in the adjacent parking lot. Wheeling companies were assisted at the scene by Prospect Heights Ambulance 39 and Lincolnshire-Riverwoods FPD Engine 52.

A passenger in the car signed a medical release at the scene and the driver was transported to an area hospital after being extricated from the wreck.

crash scene in Wheeling IL 8-9-20

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crash scene in Wheeling IL 8-9-20

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crash scene in Wheeling IL 8-9-20

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Hazardous materials incident in Lincolnshire, 5-23-19

Excerpts from abc7chicago.com:

The Lincolnshire Police Department said officers responded to a community pool at 445 Village Green at about 2:20 p.m. for reports of two unresponsive teenagers. When officers arrived, they found the teens unconscious but breathing. They were taken to Lutheran General Hospital in serious condition.

The initial investigation suggested there was a chlorine gas leak or a carbon monoxide leak after servicing the pool earlier in the day. Firefighters and hazardous material teams focused on the clubhouse near the pool where the boy and girl were found. Some of them inhaled the poisonous fumes in the process. A total of 14 people ended up being transported to area hospitals for treatment: six police officers, four firefighters, and four civilians, including the two original victims.

Fire Chief Tom Krueger said two of the devices they use to measure hazardous materials at the pool were broken due to the high levels of poisonous gas in and around the clubhouse and pool. He said in his 19 years on the job he had never seen anything like that before.

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Lincolnshire-Riverwoods FPD Ambulance 52

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fire trucks at Lincolnshire chlorine leak

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MVA with entrapment and medevac in Northbrook, 1-17-19

Northbrook firefighters were dispatched to the southbound Tri-State Tollway (I-294) Thursday afternoon for a crash involving a car and a tractor-trailer. Companies found the driver of the car needing to be extricated after hitting the back of the truck’s trailer just prior to the southbound exit ramp to Willow Road. 

A Flight For Life medical helicopter was requested to the scene and landed on the highway after all lanes in both directions were shutdown.

 

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Working fire in Riverwoods, 11-26-17

Deerfield-Bannockburn and Lincolnshire-Riverwoods FPD firefighters were sent to 601 Eagle Court in Riverwoods Sunday afternoon for reports of fire in the rear of the house. as seen by neighbors. The alarm was upgraded to a Code 4 working fire prior to any units arriving based on reports that the house was well involved.  Lincolnshire Engine 52 arrived first and had flames showing in the rear. They reported that the fire was on the exterior of the house in the rear and they hit it with a line. Deerfield Engine 20 was the second suppression unit on the scene. The fire was extinguished quickly and the balance of the companies responding were held up.

Lincolnshire-Riverwoods FPD Engine 52 on scene

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fire scene in Riverwoods IKL

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damage from fire on house exterior

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