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Title: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: Jebus on December 22, 2010, 03:01:18 PM

Today the Chicago Fire Department lost 2 firefighters while fighting a fire in a vacant building.  19 other firefighters were injured while fighting this fire, and trying to remove the downed firefighters.

http://www.suntimes.com/2984860-417/firefighters-ankum-fire-chicago-wednesday.html

It is a very sad day.

No need to arm Chair this fire.  I will be first say no reason to put people inside a vacant building!  We don't know if there were squatters or homeless in the building.  That maybe the reason why they were fighting the fire inside the building.

It is a sad day when it is this close the Christmas.

My thoughts and Prayers to the lost firefighters and there families this Christmas season.   :salute

Here is the Mayday Call...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCPw1aiQDO8

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: Nwbie on December 22, 2010, 03:10:31 PM

 :pray

Got several friends in the Department, my prayers are with the families.

NwBie

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: TEXAS20 on December 22, 2010, 03:34:01 PM

 :pray

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: ozrocker on December 22, 2010, 04:18:14 PM

 :salute  :pray

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: lyric1 on December 22, 2010, 04:19:18 PM

 :salute

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: Dichotomy on December 22, 2010, 04:48:36 PM

 :pray :salute

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: SIK1 on December 22, 2010, 07:01:32 PM

  :pray  :salute  :angel:

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: Melvin on December 22, 2010, 07:43:35 PM

 :pray

 :salute C.F.D.

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: fbWldcat on December 22, 2010, 08:16:12 PM

 :salute

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: Penguin on December 22, 2010, 08:50:04 PM

 :salute Firefighting?  They must have had balls of steel!
 
-Penguin

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: usarmy25 on December 22, 2010, 09:04:35 PM

Great men meet some of them when they escorted us home after we got back from Iraq. Some of the guys had been in our Battalion.
 :salute

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: Slash27 on December 22, 2010, 10:10:33 PM

That dispatcher did a great job. Prayers out to the Brothers family :salute

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: Midway on December 22, 2010, 10:11:44 PM

 :salute :pray :salute :pray

 :salute CFD

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: ebfd11 on December 23, 2010, 12:56:48 AM

 :salute :pray :angel: :salute :pray :angel:

CFD

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: Eagler on December 23, 2010, 09:33:53 AM

Prayers to those they left behind.
But if the building was vacant - why fight the fire from the inside?
Is a human life worth any empty building let alone something that sounds like it should have been torn down?
"Chicago’s worst firefighter tragedy in more than a decade claimed the lives of two firefighters Wednesday morning when the roof of an abandoned building with a history of code violations collapsed on top of them."
I think their policy needs to be reviewed - seems like such a waste.

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: ebfd11 on December 23, 2010, 11:11:14 AM

 

Quote from: Eagler on December 23, 2010, 09:33:53 AM

But if the building was vacant - why fight the fire from the inside?
Is a human life worth any empty building let alone something that sounds like it should have been torn down?

Eagler unfortunately it is a LEGAL thing, if the CFD did absolutely nothing except sit outside they technically can be held liable for the building. Also when responding to the fire you don't know if the homeless had set up living quarters in there. Regardless of it being empty they still must preform a search of the building. Here is good example of what i am talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Cold_Storage_Warehouse_fire
And yes it was a waste, but they are doing a job I personally miss doing.

They also have to protect the surrounding homes and property here ya go to see what they were looking at.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.758844,-87.581519&spn=0.001491,0.00515&t=h&z=19

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: Maverick on December 23, 2010, 06:20:11 PM

RIP  :pray
 :salute

Title: Re: Sad day in the Chicago Fire Department
Post by: 007Rusty on December 23, 2010, 06:46:11 PM

 :salute   :pray   :angel: