Detroit 4th of July Trip

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After listening to Detroit last year on the feed and hearing how busy they were I planned my next trip to the D.  I arrived on July 3rd and stayed through the 6th.  I caught twelve good working fires and missed many more.  The first fire was on 5707 Chopin, we arrived with the first due companies to find two dwellings going.

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Ladder 22 arrived and had to stretch a ladder pipe because their prepiped waterway was broken.

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Last one for Chopin.

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Next Job was at 6396 Hazelet another dwelling going throughout.  The interesting point of this fire was it took place in the middle of a block party complete with music and fireworks.

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The officer of Engine 39 arrived, got off the rig, looked at the crowd and said,"let me guess, no one saw anything right?"

Stay tuned more to come....

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Good photos!

 

tHANKs

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Next up is another dwelling going throughout on 15810 Petoskey. This fire spread to the vacant next store.

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Engine 42 dumpin' the monitor.

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Ladder 17 has really become the workhorse of their fleet no that they are down to two towers.  

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Next up pictures from the Family Dollar Store two bagger...

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Nice shots!

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So we wake up from our all night tour and finish eating breakfast.  We get on I-375 when they put out a box alarm for smoke coming from the Family Dollar Store, on Jos. Compau and E, McNichols.  Chief 8 arrives and gives smoke showing.   Google says we are about 5 minutes out and we can see it.  We arrived as companies were just laying out and stretching lines.  This is what we saw...

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Trucks open up and the engine stretches.

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The store was open and occupied when the fire was reported.  Speaking to the manager he said that a few people walked in and started the fire in the paper and plastics isle.

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It appeared that they had the fire knocked down then the color of the smoke changed rapidly as well as conditions.

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Then it all went to hell and we would soon witness the fire which was the pinnacle of our tour as well as total destruction of the building.

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Love this smoke.  It looked so good against the blue sky.

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Fire finds the doorway and wants out.

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the picture is a little blurry, but I had to turn fast because the wall went down followed by this fireball.

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My favorite picture.  For the rest of some spectacular photos from this fire go to my sites.

http://www.allhandsworking.com

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From this fire we went to a car fire in a commercial building and then several rooms going in a large vacant apartment building.

Stay tuned....