Chicago 4-11 alarm 3710 S California 9-11-13

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Pallet company...teaser shot 

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I can tell by this picture that you are gonna have some good ones. Can't wait as a love the Chicago jobs.

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Was wondering if you made it. Can't wait to see your shots.

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No time tonite..will try for tomorrow

[Cyber]

A side note to this fire...a baby was born right at the fire scene perimeter during the latter part of things!!  Future FF who couldn't wait and wanted to help fight the fire?  I think so!

[Cyber]

Here's the article mentioning the baby. Not much info, hopefully mom and baby are doing well.

 

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/09/12/e...warehouse/

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http://youtu.be/Q7yMiMxqBnM

[gmuhr]

Great video!

[Guest]

Sept 11, 3710 S California
Large industrial building, several hundred feet long, mainly loaded with pallets. very difficult access, embankments, trucking yards, fences, grade level differences and poor water supply and many dead end mains. See first view, aerial shot from apple maps. I arrived between the 2 and 3-11....The original portion of the building was consumed and there werew still some pallets burning...squad 1 and TL54 had been repositioned and it seemed like the incident was winding down.....these shots were my initial view of conditions, but I was only looking at a small portion of the complex....

 

first shot getting in

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Remaining pallets burning, ofi investigator walking into the frame

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looked like this was it..did'nt realize the length of the complex

 

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TL54 sustained heat damage and was moved hastily...working the gun off the basket with no elevation or extension in this shot

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started to make my way west through all the obstacles

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still a good volume of fire..more than I thought....

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after climbing an embankment with an assist from a CPD tactical officer (thanks), here is what I saw....

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just started coming through the roof of this section

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Tactical meeting....

[Cyber]

They made an EXCELLENT STOP protecting that last building that was storing the propane from much fire damage.

[Guest]

I like this one a lot

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really started to get hot from the radiant heat at this point