The building, workforce housing owned by the St. Columba Episcopal church, was deemed unsafe in an engineering report after “spalling and cracks were noticed at the balconies.” “The main structural members (beams & columns) require immediate concrete repair,” the report also noted.
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Read more...CHICAGO — Fire officials say they suspect arson in a North Side fire that caused a woman’s death. The woman died from her injuries after jumping out a window to escape the extra-alarm fire. The fire started around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at an apartment building in the 1700 block of West Touhy Avenue in the […]
Read more...Smoke Detectors Save Lives: Plainfield Fire Dept Most fire deaths occur in homes without a working smoke detector. By Shannon Antinori, Patch National Staff | Feb 6, 2018 5:59 pm ET | Updated Feb 6, 2018 5:59 pm ET PLAINFIELD, IL — The majority of home fire deaths happen in homes with no smoke alarms […]
Read more...JERSEY CITY – Firefighters are battling a devastating blaze on Grant Avenue tonight. The four-alarm fire at 21 Grant Ave. critically injured one man and an infant needed to be resuscitated by first responders, Fire Chief Steven McGill said at the scene. Firefighters arrived at the blaze at about 7 p.m. and more than an […]
Read more...Threat of Falling Ice Shuts Down Chicago Street By Lisa Chavarria Sunday, Jan 7, 2018 A portion of a street in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood was closed Sunday because of the threat of falling ice from a frozen-over high-rise. A broken sprinkler system on one of the upper floors of a building at 615 […]
Read more...Man injured in fall from fire escape in Pilsen CHICAGO NEWS 11/21/2017, 03:54pm Sun-Times file photo Jordan Owen @byjordanowen | email A man was injured in a fall from a fire escape Tuesday morning in the Pilsen neighborhood on the Near West Side. About 10 a.m., the 39-year-old man was working on the first-floor fire escape […]
Read more...AUGUST 9, 2016 |Operational Safety on Fire Escapes Lessons from the Fireground: Fire Fighter Dies from Fall off Fire Escape Ladder – Illinois Make some time today to read the Lessons from the Fireground from NIOSH Report F2010-25 related to operations from fire escapes. Get your company out into the streets today or this evening and […]
Read more...CHICAGO (CBS) — Two girls were found dead and four others were injured in a house fire Saturday night in the Woodlawn neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. CBS 2’s Lauren Victory Reports. There is still no official cause for the fire that killed seven-month-old Ziya Grace and two-year-old Jamaii Grace. Both children were found dead in […]
Read more...Fire escape collapses leaves two trapped, three injured POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 BY ALTON TELEGRAPH Recovery continues for victims in fire escape collapse Man remains in coma, future uncertain By Linda N. Weller – lweller@civitasmedia.com Green ALTON — Three people who fell about 20 feet to the ground Sunday night when a second-floor fire escape platform collapsed […]
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