Daily Herald Video of fireground operations shortly after a house fire destroyed a two-story brick and wood frame home on the 40W500 block of Prairie Court between Gilberts and Pingree Grove.
Pete Marek reported a fire Tuesday morning to the Pingree Grove Fire Department after a fire extinguisher failed to extinguish a fire believed to be caused by a spark from a metal grinder used to do work on an older model pickup truck in a garage.
Rutland-Dundee, Hampshire, Huntley, Hoffman Estates, West Dundee, East Dundee, Carpentersville, Pingree Grove, St. Charles, Elburn, Elgin, Burlington, South Elgin, Bartlett and Genoa-Kingston fire departments were on the scene for the extra alarm fire. Firefighters used tankers or tender trucks with deployable, folding, portable water tanks to hold water that was shuttled to the fire scene. The neighborhood does not have fire hydrants.
The extra-alarm fire was a third alarm tanker box.
Fireground operations showing toddler rescued by firefighter Kevin Hartmann, white/male getting aggressive with the camera operator, and then shoving a firefighter before police arrived in Elgin.
THU NOV 19 2009 ELGIN — LATE REPORT (FOR VIDEO ARCHIVE) Elgin Fire Department responded to a house fire just after 3:10 p.m. to find a first floor front room well-involved with fire. Elgin firefighters discovered that a toddler was still inside, so Kevin Hartmann rushed his primary search and found a 2-year old inside a room filling with smoke.
After the rescue, James R. Beavers, the todder’s father, berated a video camera operator — crossing across the front yard, exclaiming, “Can we help you … Can WE help you?” Beavers then walked back toward the house and shoved a firefighter and interfered with firefighter operations.
When police arrived, James R. Beavers was arrested and charged with two counts of arson, two counts of aggravated arson, aggravated resisting a police officer, and two counts of obstructing a firefighter.
Video at house explosion in Elgin about thirty minutes after blast on Elma Avenue.
Elgin Fire Department responded to a house explosion and fire about 9:00 p.m. Tuesday at 708 Elma Avenue in Elgin. An apparent natural gas leak caused an explosion and fire that destroyed the house. Six people were transported to hospitals after a second alarm EMS Box was called for mutual aid paramedics to the scene. Six people were transported to area hospitals — including Sherman Hospital in Elgin, Provena St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin, and St. Alexius Hospital in Hoffman Estates. Two patients were reported in critical condition, one in serious condition, and three with injuries reported as not life-threatening. Five of the injured were residents of 708 Elma Avenue, and one person was a neighbor that was involved in rescue before the fire department arrived. A seventh person — a Nicor employee — was reported injured at about 12:45 a.m. Wednesday.
Firefighters protected adjacent homes from catching fire as the destroyed house continued to burn fiercely. Police and firefighters also evacuated residents on the block that were adjacent to the destroyed home. Additional Nicor crews arrived on the scene — some carrying poles. Firefighters also were seen walking toward the scene carrying power saws and mats. Firefighters had to let the house burn to the ground because gas was still leaking and burning at the gas source. Extinguishing the fire before the gas leak is stopped, could cause another explosion.
Nicor gas utility company had been called for complaints about a gas odor about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday to a house at 710 Elma Avenue — next-door to the house that later exploded. Nicor crews arrived about 30 minutes later. Then the neighbor’s house at 708 Elma exploded about three hours later. Nicor crews were in the vicinity when the home exploded. None of the Nicor workers were injured and no firefighters were injured (Daily Herald is reporting that a Nicor worker was injured … developing). Apparently residents of the home were injured and an unidentified neighbor who rescued two residents from the home. The injured were seen leaving the home immediately after the blast, with at least one person crawling out of a window opening. Then the demolished home became fully involved with fire.
Smoke and the smell from the burning home was pouring across Interstate 90 to the north. Several Nicor trucks were on the scene past 11:30 p.m. and overnight. One of the Nicor trucks was directly across the street from the exploded home — apparently parked there before the house exploded and before firefighters arrived. An end loader was seen parked at Elma Avenue and 1st Street near the home at 9:40 p.m. — also probably there before the house exploded.
Fire Departments from Bartlett, Carpentersville, Hoffman Estates, Pingree Grove, South Elgin, Streamwood, and West Dundee responded to the mutual aid EMS Box Alarm at the second level.
The Red Cross was also called to the scene.
Additional Nicor trucks and remote news trucks parked at the Roll-N-Donut house at the corner of Route 25 and Elma Avenue. Nicor workers were working through the night in freezing conditions. Footing was unsteady on shoveled, but iced sidewalks.
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Dry Christmas Tree burning (left) and fresh, watered Christmas Tree burning (right).
National Fire Protection Association/Underwriters Laboratories (UL) video compares the burning of a dry real Christmas Tree compared to the burning of a fresh, watered Christmas Tree.
Christmas tree fire demonstration showing how fast a dry Scotch Pine tree burns (elapsed time 48 seconds).
Christmas Tree tips: Don’t buy a tree that loses a lot of needles if you run your hands along the length of a branch.
Water Daily: A cut tree will consume a quart of water per day for each inch of diameter of the tree trunk, so a two-inch tree trunk will consume one-half gallon of water per day.
Make a fresh cut at the tree’s base when you bring it home before you set up the tree. This will open up the tree to improve water absorption efficiency.
Keep the tree at least three feet from heat sources such as fireplaces, heaters, radiators and heating vents.
Do not keep the tree longer than four weeks.
Video footage provided to media by NFPA and UL with voiceover and without voiceover.
Security video shows a stroller that rolls off of a train platform and falls between the rails of train tracks in Australia.
After rushing to catch her stroller that rolled off of a train platform and fell between the rails of train tracks at the Ashburton station, a mom had to wait for rescuers to access her 6-month-old boy who was in the stroller and dragged about 130 feet by the train. The train was traveling about 22 mph when it first hit the stroller. Investigators say that properly applied straps by the mother kept the child safely protected in the stroller in between the rails. The toddler only suffered a bump on the forehead.
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