Tag result for article published on Mon August 06 2012 8:20 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: house fire, house fire Park Ridge, lightning fire, lightning strike, Park Ridge, Park Ridge Fire Department, storm damage
Firefighters from Park Ridge go to work on an attic/roof fire after a lightning strike in Park Ridge on Saturday, August 4, 2012 (Photo from neighbor/See over 120 more photos on Facebook.com/CardinalEmergencies). A large area of thunderstorms crossed northern Illinois, started a house fire in Park Ridge and caused scattered damage throughout the northwest suburbs [...]
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Tag result for article published on Fri May 04 2012 7:21 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Arlington Heights, Arlington Heights Fire Department, Arlington Heights Police Department, house fire, house fire Arlington Heights, lightning fire, lightning strike fire
VIDEO: House fire on the second floor after lightning apparently ignited the roof of a duplex home on North Drury Lane. Arlington Heights police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 2:29 a.m. Friday to a report of a house struck by lightning in the 1700 block of North Drury Lane in Arlington Heights. Firefighters first received a [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu May 12 2011 8:04 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: attic fire, house fire, lightning fire, lightning strike, Palatine, Palatine Fire Department, roof fire
VIDEO: Palatine firefighters got on the roof quickly and cut a hole in the roof to ventilate a house on North Fremont Street while firefighters inside hit the fire with a hose line. Almost simultaneously, Palatine Fire Department and police officers responded to two fires apparently caused by very early morning lightning strikes. The first [...]
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Tag result for article published on Tue April 06 2010 12:24 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: box alarm, extra alarm, IFERN, lightning fire, MABAS
View Chicagoland Major Fires & Rescues in a larger map Harvard firefighters called for a second level box alarm (extra-alarm) for a church fire in Harvard that started shortly before 8:00 a.m. Friday. The fire may have been caused by lightning during a severe thunderstorm. Firefighters used tender or tanker trucks to bring water to [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sun April 04 2010 8:40 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: lightning fire, lightning strike, tree fire
A lightning strike hit a tree at 547 Rob Roy Court about 8:00 p.m Sunday. Somehow a gas line under the tree became involved in the fire. Palatine Rural Fire Protection District was fighting a large tree fire directly in front of the condo unit when they realized natural gas was bubbling up from a [...]
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