Fire in the 4800 block of South Paulina starts out looking as a routine fire. But notice the increasingly dark smoke early in the video (at :45) that becomes lighter again (at about 1:20). At about 3:00 minutes and later the smoke over the front door (to the right of the ladder) is possibly pulsating.
Less than a minute after a firefighter ventilates a top story window (3:46 elapsed time), a large backdraft engulfs the house (4:12 elapsed time). Four firefighters suffered facial burns. One of the firefighters spent more than a week at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Three of the injured firefighters were standing near the front door. The rush of flames blew out the front door. The fourth injured firefighter was hit by flames while he was on a ladder. The biggest risk of harmful or fatal injury is when a person inhales the hot air. An injured airway can swell and block air to the lungs.
Buffalo Grove firefighters responded about 4:15 a.m. Tuesday to report of a natural gas odor in the basement of a home in the 700 block of Horatio in Buffalo Grove. Firefighters arrived on the scene and discovered the strong odor of a skunk was coming from inside the house or very close to the house. Firefighters searched the basement and house for a live skunk in the house, but no word on whether a skunk as found.
Schaumburg police and firefighter/paramedics responded to a crash between a large Hogan Truck Leasing and Rental truck and a Plymouth Voyager minivan just before 11:30 a.m. Monday. Schaumburg firefighters were committed to extrication procedures to rescue a man that was trapped in his minivan. Firefighters used heavy rescue tools to cut and pry parts of the car away from the driver, so that he could be safely stabilized and moved for transportation. The man was transported to Level I Trauma Center Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. The driver of the Hogan Truck Leasing and Rental truck was transported to Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village with minor injuries.
A twin-engine Piper Seneca aircraft stuck a deer during landing at Campbell Airport in Grayslake Sunday and then headed for Chicago Executive Airport for an emergency landing on Runway 16 — the longest runway at Chicago Executive Airport. The pilot reported that the small plane possibly hit a deer on landing and was presumed the cause of the damage to the left side landing gear. The pilot did a fly-by of the control tower at Chicago Executive Airport to the personnel in the control tower could check to see if the landing gear were deployed normally. The pilot was instructed to fly a pattern until firefighters could stage near the runway. Wheeling Fire Department and Prospect Heights Fire Department responded with two crash trucks, a fire engine and two ambulances to standby for the emergency landing, which involved landing the plane on its front and right-side landing gear while skimming on its left wing — with sparks flying. The plane landed safely.
The plane did not leak any fuel. Six passengers onboard, including two children, were not injured.
Daily Herald interview with Deborah Olson and grandchildren Blake Caravello, and Kayleigh Caravello — sharing the account of safe flying action by Lake County pilot John Olson.
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UPDATE: Michael Gryga, 40, has been identified as the People Gas worker who was killed Wednesday when he was struck by a bursting pipe that was undergoing pressure testing.
Chicago Fire Department responded to a gas main pipe test that went wrong in a manhole tunnel about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Jackson and Wacker. The intersection is just southwest of Willis Tower. One worker was killed. Two other workers were injured. The victims are reported rescued from the tunnel. One victim was reported to be critically injured and transported to Stroger Hospital. The third victim is reported to be shaken up with minor or no injuries. The victim that was fatally injured was also transported to Stroger Hospital.
Chicago Fire Department sent special teams for confined space rescue and fire suppression, but apparently no hazard exists after the explosion.
Workers were using compressed air to test the pressure in a pipe, when the pipe burst, and fragments of the blown apart pipe hit the workers. No gas or fire was involved.
Video of extrication operations by Schaumburg Fire Department for a truck driver that was trapped in his truck after it rolled on its side on the Route 53 northbound ramp to eastbound Interstate 90.
Schaumburg Fire Department, Illinois State Police and IDOT responded to a semi-trailer truck rollover about 12:25 p.m. Monday. The driver was trapped inside the tractor or cab for about 20 minutes. Firefighter/paramedics in an extrication operation had to cut part of the roof of the truck while working in extremely muddy and slippery conditions off the inside should of the ramp from northbound Route 53 to eastbound Interstate 90.
Schaumburg firefighter/paramedics transported the driver to Northwest Community Hospital about 12:55 p.m. Monday. The truck was laying on its driver’s side. LIN-MAR towing was working to tow the semi-trailer truck away after 1:00 p.m.
There was some lane blockage during the towing and recovery mode of the vehicle. Lanes were kept open during the extrication and rescue of the victim.
Semi-trailer truck on its side minutes after the driver was rescued from the driver’s seat … with LIN-MAR Towing preparing to recover the vehicle and tow it away.
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