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Chicago 2-11 Alarm fire 8-13-13
This from Eric Haak: Here are a few shots of Tuesday’s 2-11 on the 7600 block of South Eggleston in Chicago. Still time – 1110 hrs, Box time – 1119 hrs, 2-11 time – 1139 hrs, my arrival time – 1149...
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Chicago Still & Box alarm fire 8-14-13
This from Eric Haak: A few rig shots from the still & box alarm at the corner of Pershing Road and Wolcott on Wednesday. Still time – 1108 hrs, box time – 1110 hrs, box struck 1127 hrs. Engine 49...
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Chicago 2-11 Alarm fire 8-17-13 (more)
This from Eric Haak: A few shots from this mornings 2-11 on the 5400 block of south Kedzie. Still time was 0547 hrs. Engines 88 & 123, Tower Ladder 39 & Truck 52, Battalion 20 RIT with Truck...
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House fire in Chicago 8-17-13
This from Eric Haak: The still time for this fire was 1702 hrs. Although the fire was out before I arrived, I wanted submit these because it was kind of an interesting job. This vacant 2.5 story...
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Chicago 2-11 Fire with mayday response 8-23-13
This from Eric Haak: At 1830 hrs Friday evening, companies in the Chicago Fire Department’s 23rd Battalion responded to the 8000 block of South Marquette on a still alarm. Arriving companies reported...
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A visit to CFD Engine 85′s old house
This from Eric Haak: For anyone who is interested, Engine 85′s old quarters at 3700 W. Huron is now a red-X building. Don’t know if there are any plans to demolish the 114 year old building but with...
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Chicago Still Alarm fire 9-14-13
This from Eric Haak: This fire on the 5300 block of South Justine occurred Saturday afternoon at 1245 hrs. Companies responding were Engines 116 and 123, Truck 33 and Tower Ladder 39, Battalion 19...
View ArticleNew blog online to showcase fire scene photos (update)
If you enjoy viewing photos of fire scenes and you haven’t been checking out the new FireScenes.Net blog that went live one month ago, you’re missing some very interesting posts. But, for Chicago area...
View ArticleVideo from 1993 features CFD
This from Eric Haak: Found this on YouTube. It was posted recently. There used to be just short clips of this but this is the entire episode. Very entertaining and I wanted to share it. Also...
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Chicago Still & Box Alarm 11-24-13
This from Eric Haak: At 1412hrs on Sunday, November 24th, companies on Chicago’s south side were dispatched to a report of a structure fire on the 8000 block of South May Street. Three minutes later,...
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Chicago 2-11 Alarm fire 11-27-13
This from Eric Haak: Shortly before 1530hrs on Wednesday, November 27th, companies in Chicago’s 23rd Battalion were dispatched to the report of a garbage can on fire in the rear of a building on the...
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CFD rescues dog from pond 11-30-13
This from Eric Haak: Shortly before 0900 hrs on Saturday, November 30th, Chicago’s Main Fire Alarm Office received a call of a person in the water at the Humboldt Park Lagoon. Squad 2 was returning...
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Chicago Still & Box Alarm fire 12-7-13
This from Eric Haak: They got this one out very quickly and with the temps being what they were, I didn’t hang around to get too many additional shots. Shortly before 1400hrs on Saturday afternoon,...
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Central Stickney FPD house fire, 12-19-13
This from Eric Haak: Some time before 0600 hrs on Thursday, December 19th, the Central Stickney Fire Protection District was dispatched to a house fire on the southwest corner of Lockwood Avenue and...
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Chicago working fire on S. Princeton, 12-21-13
This from Eric Haak: Here are some shots from yesterday’s working fire on the 5600 block of South Princeton. I got there as the aerial was being raised and, although the 17th battalion reported that...
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Chicago working fire, 12-25-13
This from Eric Haak: Christmas morning was a busy one for fire companies in Chicago’s 18th Battalion as they battled 2 still & box alarm fires within hours of each other. The first was in the 6900...
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Chicago Still & Box Alarm, 12-31-13
This from Eric Haak: Here are some photographs of a Still & Box Alarm fire on the 6600 Block of South Oakley in Chicago. This still went out at 0936 hrs and was boxed for the report of people...
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Chicago working fire, 12-31-13
One more from Eric Haak before the New Year arrives: Around 1130 hrs, a fire was reported in a large u-shaped courtyard apartment building on the 5600 block of South Kenwood near the University of...
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Chicago Still & Box Alarm fire, 1-2-14
This from Eric Haak: Shortly before 1400 hrs on Thursday, Chicago’s 15th Battalion Chief called for a Still & Box alarm on the 4000 block of South Brighton Place. Chicago had been dealing with a...
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Chicago firefighters work in record cold temperatures, January 6, 2014
This from Eric Haak: I arrived 25 minutes into this job which started just before noon on Monday in Chicago at the intersection of Thomas and Pulaski. The temperature at that time was -14 and the wind...
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