Prospect Heights Fire Department requested an extra alarm for a house fire at 500 Kewaunee Court just before 8:00 PM Friday. Extensive fire damage occurred to the first and second floors and a patio deck at the rear of the house. Report of heavy fire in the back of the residence before firefighters arrived. Large smoke header visible from Arlington Heights before arrival of Prospect Heights Fire Department. Excellent knock down of fire by Prospect Heights Fire Department, especially considering the fire was well-involved before fire companies arrived and that the neighborhood does not have water supply with fire hydrants. Unfortunately, two dogs died in the fire. More … arlingtoncardinal.blogharbor.com Arlingtoncards.com/fireblog www.arlingtoncards.com See also the following from firetactics.com www.firetactics.com (information about backdraft, flashover, autoignition smoke explosions, rapid fire progress and more)
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Allentown Comm Center transmitted the box for an apartment fire with an address of 2635 Prospect Avenue in Apartment 8 sending Engines 11, 14, 10, Tower Ladder 1 and Battalioin Chief 3 (G. Scheirer). Enroute, police transmitted “fire showing.” Phone calls report possible people trapped. Engine 11 arrives and transmits “a working fire” in a two-story garden-style apartment building fully occupied. BC 3 arrives while engine crews are stretching into the stairwell to the top floor. BC 3 proceeds to the rear for a size-up and finds heavy fire venting from all the windows and roof. He strikes the second alarm and orders the interior crews out of the building. Engines 4, 6, 9 (safety), Air 1, FM 4, 47 and 48 respond. Larger handlines and stangs are put into service along with the squirt and tower ladder. As the fire engulfs the roof and then collapses, BC 3 strikes the third alarm. Engine 13 and Ladder 2 respond. All Hands are now working at this location. 7 families are homeless. One firefighter sustained minor injuries from a fall on ice. The temperature was 17′F with a wind chill of 3′F.
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www.arlingtoncards.com Fully involved fire in a garden apartment at 535 Dempster Avenue in Mount Prospect right after it was knocked down. Box Alarm with fire departments from Arlington Heights, Des Plaines, Elk Grove Township, Elk Grove Village, Palatine, Palatine Rural, and Wood Dale assisting. www.coolfitnessgifts.com