Tag result for article published on Sat January 19 2013 8:10 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: hit-and-run crash, Hoffman Estates Fire Department, Hoffman Estates Police Department, personal injury crash, personal injury crash Hoffman Estates
Hoffman Estates police and firefighter/paramedics 8:02 AM Saturday responded to a hit-and-run personal injury crash at Arbor Glen Boulevard and Hillcrest Boulevard in Hoffman Estates. Police received a report that the driver of a gray Nissan truck is wanted for leaving the scene of a personal injury crash. The offending vehicle was last seen headed [...]
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Posted in CRIME BLOG C
Tag result for article published on Thu November 29 2012 8:59 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Com Ed, Hoffman Estates Fire Department, power failure, power failure Hoffman Estates, power failure Schaumburg
Schaumburg police and Hoffman Estates police received a report about 8:55 AM Thursday of a transformer blown near Golf Road and Barrington Road. Traffic signals are out or are flashing red in several intersections near the area of Golf Road and Barrington Road.
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Posted in Public Service
Tag result for article published on Thu August 23 2012 9:37 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: car vs. tree crash, car vs. tree crash Hoffman Estates, Hoffman Estates Fire Department, Hoffman Estates Police Department, personal injury crash
Hoffman Estates police and firefighter/paramedics 11:13 PM Thursday crash with entrapment with two victims injured at Mumford Drive and Downing Drive. Firefighter/paramedics on the scene reported a car crashed into a tree with no entrapment, but two injured victims. Palatine Rural firefighter/paramedics responded initially to the call. At least one victim required Advanced Life Support. [...]
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Posted in Fire/Rescue/EMS Notebook, FIREBLOG B
Tag result for article published on Sat August 11 2012 3:51 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: extrication crash, extrication crash Hoffman Estates, Hoffman Estates Fire Department, personal injury crash
Hoffman Estates firefighter/paramedics, Cook County Forest Preserve police, and Hoffman Estates police responded about 12:06 a.m. Saturday to a head-on crash involving a truck and a Ford Mustang at Barrington Road and Higgins Road. Minutes after initial dispatch, rescuers initially received a report that at least one person was trapped in the Ford Mustang. A [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sun May 20 2012 11:21 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: fatal fire, fatal house fire, Hoffman Estates Fire Department, Hoffman Estates Police Department, house fire
An early morning, overnight house fire killed Hoffman Estates resident Emmett Keating in an early morning fire overnight. Emmet Keating was over 90-years-old and used a wheelchair. Two people escaped the house fire and told police that an elderly man, who was wheelchair-bound, was still in the burning house. Firefighters immediately went to work, searched [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sun May 20 2012 7:35 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Code 4, Hoffman Estates Fire Department, house fire, house fire Hoffman Estates
UPDATE: Emmett Keating, 92, Killed in House Fire on Cumberland St, Hoffman Estates Hoffman Estates police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 1:34 a.m. Sunday to a report of a house fire with ‘high flames’ seen from the 0-99 block of Arizona Boulevard — a Hoffman Estates address. The fire was discovered by police in the 700 [...]
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Posted in FIREBLOG C
Tag result for article published on Tue October 04 2011 9:03 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: fatal burns, fatal fire, Hoffman Estates, Hoffman Estates Fire Department, shed fire, utility pole fire
Hoffman Estates police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 8:22 a.m. Monday to a report of an explosion or popping noise and a man down on fire with burns with a backyard shed burning in the 1000 block of Hillcrest Boulevard. Firefighters arrived to find a burn victim with a shed fully involved with flames that extended [...]
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Tag result for article published on Fri January 28 2011 9:23 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: accident investigation, AI, burn victim, ejection, fatal crash, fatal head-on crash, fatal hit-and-run, hit-and-run, Hoffman Estates, Hoffman Estates Fire Department, Hoffman Estates Police Department
View Hoffman Estates Crime in a larger map Golf Road (Route 58) near the scene of a fatal head-on crash. Migdalia Bloch, 62, of Hoffman Estates, was reported dead at the scene in a fiery head-on collision that also killed Joseph Paliokaitis, 32, who was transported to St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates, and [...]
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Posted in Crimes Notebook
Tag result for article published on Mon November 22 2010 1:37 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: candle fire, Hoffman Estates, Hoffman Estates Fire Department, Hoffman Estates Police Department, house fire, unattended candle fire
Hoffman Estates police and firefighter/paramedics responded Saturday afternoon to the 4100 block of North Firestone Court where a fire broke out in a bedroom, and three residents were already evacuated. The fire was contained to a single bedroom of a two-story home. The second floor was damaged by smoke. Unattended candles have been indicated as [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sun September 26 2010 7:50 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Beverly Road, Elgin, fire, garbage fire, Hoffman Estates, Hoffman Estates Fire Department, I-90, IFERN, Interstate 90, mulch fire, mutual aid, northwest suburbs fire, Prairie Stone Parkway, South Barrington, tire fire
VIDEO: Large smoke/header in the sky near Sears Centre Arena and Life Changers International Church at Plote Construction. Video begins with view from Payton Hill in Arlington Heights — 13 miles away. Hoffman Estates Fire Department fought a large fire in a mulch and tire pile at the Plote Construction property near Interstate 90 and [...]
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Posted in FIRE BLOG
Tag result for article published on Tue September 22 2009 4:34 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: extra alarm, Hoffman Estates Fire Department, mutual aid, Technical Rescue
View Larger Map Google street view looking north in the 2300 block of West Higgins Road at the former Menards building. Debris at former Menards building structure collapse in Hoffman Estates. Photo courtesy Pauley LaPointe/Spot News Chicago. Hoffman Estates Fire Department responded to a structural collapse at the former Menards building at Higgins Road, just [...]
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Posted in FIREBLOG B