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Of interest … Richmond Fire Department news

Excerpts from the ChicagoTribune.com:

Marcus McGee, 30, a 2004 graduate of North Chicago High School, has been on the Richmond Fire Department in Virginia for about three years. On Dec. 17, he was one of four firefighters whose engine was first on the scene of an apartment building fire with an 11-month-old girl trapped inside, Richmond Fire Department Chief Patrick Schoeffel said.

McGee and three other firefighters arrived on the scene within 33 seconds of getting the call. Thick black smoke, however, caused zero visibility along the street and the engine was forced to stop 100 feet short of the building.

As Firefighter Korey Pettiford parked the engine and tapped the hydrant, McGee, who served as acting lieutenant that day, and two others ran toward the fire. From that instant, it took the firefighters one minute and 49 seconds to get the baby out of the house.

The building had four apartments. Neighbors told the firefighters that a baby was still inside, but they did not know which apartment, and were blinded by the smoke.

In the third apartment they entered, which was on the second floor, the crew found the fire’s source, which was in a bedroom to the right and they heard crying coming from a bedroom to the right.

While in the smoke-filled hallway, a flashover occurred. They could hear the baby crying, and expected the worst. McGee and another firefighter, Parker Ramsey, who has been with the department a year, addressed the blaze, while 5-year veteran Carlos Samuels found the child.

Because the hallway was ablaze, Samuels covered the baby as best he could and shot out of there down the steps.  All of that happened in under two minutes, the chief said.

Soot made the baby appear to be burned, but she was not. She was treated for smoke inhalation and released from the hospital the following day.

“This kid probably had a minute or less to live,” Schoeffel said. “This kid is probably 10 feet away from (the flashover) and didn’t get burned,” Schoeffel said.

Meanwhile, the heat from the flashover melted the three firefighters’ gear and burned their ears.

“Everything was ruined except for their boots,” the chief said. “Everything they had on suffered such a heat blast that it burned holes, and it can’t be used anymore.”

thanks Dan

 

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Brush fire in Spring Grove, 4-16-16

This from Steve Redick:

Happened on a small job in what I think was Spring Grove. There was a massive header due to rubber play matting that was burning. The Spring Grove tanker is one massive rig!
Spring Grove Fire Department tanker

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aftermath of small brush fire

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Richmond Fire Department engine

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Spring Grove Fire Department ambulance

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Spring Grove Fire Department tanker

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Spring Grove Fire Department brush truck

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Spring Grove Fire Department brush truck

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Spring Grove Fire Department tanker

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3-Alarm fire in Spring Grove, 11-29-15

This from Jeff Rudolph:

12/29/15

Spring Grove, IL – McHenry County FPD responded to a fire at 6316 Johnsburg rd. Due in part to the size of the structure and the lack of hydrants in the area, command upgraded to the Box and eventually up to the third alarm for tenders. The fire was quickly knocked down and kept from extending into the residence. Jeff Rudolph
Spring Grove house fire

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Cary FD rescue squad

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Fox Lake FD Nova Quintech Sky-Arm

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Fox River Grove FD tender

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Hebron Alden FPD tanker

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lake Geneva WI FD fire engine

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Richmond FD fire engine

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Excerpts from the Northwest Herald:

No one was injured in a fire that caused easily more than $100,000 in damage to a Spring Grove home Sunday afternoon. The Spring Grove Fire Protection District responded at 2:26 p.m. Sunday to 6316 Johnsburg Road where first responders (firefighters) found flames shooting out of the roof and windows of an attached tool shed, Chief Richard Tobiasz said.

About 15 fire departments from Lake and McHenry counties as well as Wisconsin helped put out the fire, which had extended into the main house, a large converted dairy barn … it took less than an hour for crews to get the fire under control.

The home is located in an area without fire hydrants, so tankers were dispatched to the water tower in Spring Grove to bring back water, he said.

The owner had been heating up some cooking oil in the tool shed when he went back in the house and may have fallen asleep, Tobiasz said. A neighbor saw the fire, got into the house and woke up the owner and his two adult sons.

The first floor and the tool shed suffered fire damage, and smoke damage extended onto the second floor where the bedrooms are, he said, adding the house is not a total loss and potentially could be rebuilt.

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