Tag result for article published on Sun March 11 2012 4:30 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: brush fire, Cook County Forest Preserve, Deer Grove fire, Deer Grove Forest Preserve, Deer Grove Forest Preserved Fire, Forest Preserve District Cook County, grass fire, Lake Cook Road fire, Lake Zurich Fire Rescue, MABAS Box Alarm, Palatine Fire Department, United Parcel Service, UPS, wild fire, wildfire
VIDEO of Deer Grove wildfire from daylight to night on Saturday that burned about 10 acres of brush, grass and trees in the Cook County forest preserve. FIREFIGHTERS PROTECT UPS FACILITY, GROSSINGER CHEVROLET AND HOMES FROM WILDFIRE WHILE AREA WAS UNDER A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RED FLAG WARNING A brush fire at Deer Grove Forest [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sun March 11 2012 11:11 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: brush fire, Cook County Forest Preserve, Deer Grove fire, Deer Grove Forest Preserve, Deer Grove Forest Preserved Fire, Forest Preserve District Cook County, grass fire, Lake Cook Road fire, Lake Zurich Fire Rescue, MABAS Box Alarm, Palatine Fire Department, United Parcel Service, UPS, wild fire, wildfire
VIDEO of Deer Grove wildfire from daylight to night on Saturday. FIREFIGHTERS PROTECT UPS FACILITY, GROSSINGER CHEVROLET AND HOMES FROM WILDFIRE WHILE AREA WAS UNDER A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RED FLAG WARNING Lake Zurich firefighters responded to a grass fire about 4:35 p.m. Saturday just south of Lake Cook Road and Dee Lane. Firefighters reported [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu July 07 2011 6:46 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Cook County Forest Preserve, homicide, South Barrington, Spring Creek Valley Forest Preserve, strangulation
The body of a man found Wednesday in Penny Road Pond at Penny Road Forest Preserve near Penny Road and Old Sutton Road, South Barrington has been identified as David Campbell of Waukegan, a Cook County Forest Preserve District spokesman said Thursday. South Barrington police found the body lying half-in, half-out of the Penny Road [...]
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Posted in CRIME BLOG C
Tag result for article published on Tue April 26 2011 8:01 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Cook County Forest Preserve, Cook County Sheriff, homicide, strangulation
UPDATE: Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart has announced Wednesday that a person of interest is now in custody as a result of the investigation into the strangulation death of 18-year-old Rosemary Newman of Alsip. Though the investigation remains ongoing, Sheriff’s Police investigators do not believe Newman’s death was a random act of violence. On [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu October 21 2010 1:55 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: auto theft, Busse Woods, Cook County Forest Preserve, Elk Grove Village, stolen auto
Arlington Heights and Elk Grove Village police were alerted to a stolen auto report from the Cook County Forest Preserve police investigating the auto theft near Busse Woods. A silver Volkswagen Passat 4-door with three bicycle racks on the roof was reported stolen from a parking lot near Arlington Heights Road and Illinois Route 72 [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sat September 18 2010 11:45 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Cook County Forest Preserve, Cook County Sheriff, Mount Prospect Police Department, shots fired, shots fired heard
A Cook County Sheriff’s Deputy or Cook County Forest Preserve police officer reported hearing at least five gunshots in the forest preserve near River Trailer Nature Center Friday night and near River Road and Euclid Avenue about 8:00 p.m. Friday. Mount Prospect police assisted Cook County Sheriff’s deputies. Police were searching the forest preserve on [...]
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Posted in CRIME BLOG B
Tag result for article published on Sat March 27 2010 5:28 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: brush fire, controlled burn, Cook County Forest Preserve, Northwest Tollway
A large amount of smoke seen near Interstate 90 and Route 59 is a controlled burn in the Cook County Forest Preserve in the area. A large amount of smoke was visible about 5:00 p.m. Saturday. The brush burns were mostly north and west of the I-90 (Jane Addams Memorial Tollway, formerly Northwest Tollway) and [...]
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Posted in FD Notebook, FIRE BLOG
Tag result for article published on Sun March 07 2010 10:03 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Allision Woods, body in river, Cook County Forest Preserve, Des Plaines River, Forest Preserve of Cook County
Glenview Fire Department and Prospect Heights Fire Department responded to a discovery of a body in river debris near the Allision Pavillion in the Cook County Forest Preserve in unincorporated Wheeling Township. The body was discovered about 12:30 p.m. in the Des Plaines River about one-quarter mile south of Milwaukee Avenue by a couple that [...]
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Posted in Water Safety
Tag result for article published on Sat June 20 2009 5:56 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Cook County Forest Preserve, Des Plaines River, Dive Box, IFERN, MABAS, water rescue
Wheeling Fire Department requested an extra alarm Dive Box for the water rescue of a person trapped under Dam #1 of the Des Plaines River at about 5:45 p.m. Saturday. The person has been identified as Gavino Alvarez-Diego of Prospect Heights. Several witness saw the man in his mid-thirties fall into the river while he [...]
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Posted in 24/7 Fire Rescue!, Water Safety