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Rescue crews from Kronenwetter Fire & Rescue, and South Area Fire and Emergency Response District (SAFER) responded to the 1900 Block of WI-153 Tuesday afternoon (2/27/18) for a report of a male trapped in a well. Captain Dan Borth said the man was approx. 10 feet down and uninjured. It was a pretty easy non traumatic rescue. The man was working on a leaking pipe at the time of the incident.

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Photos By: Wayne Gauger – WGWI-PUBLICATIONS

Firefighters in Kronenwetter WI

Photo By Wayne Gauger – WGWI-PUBLICATIONS

Kronenwetter Fire & Rescue

Photo by Wayne Gauger – WGWI-PUBLICATIONS

Kronenwetter Fire & Rescue

Photo by Wayne Gauger – WGWI-PUBLICATIONS

Took in a  job in Chicago’s fire prone 11th battalion at 8230 W. Berwyn Avenue 2/10/18. Pretty cut and dried but it appeared they hit two frozen hydrants (not sure … judging by my obervations alone). This job was 1/2 block from a good working fire on the same street about two weeks ago. Heavy snow made travel and parking on the side streets difficult and hydrants were pretty much buried in snow as well.  I was able to shoot a little use of the stripping ladder … not something you can usually see from the street.

All the images and a quick video can be seen here:

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winter fire scene

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winter fire scene

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Chicago FD Engine 11

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Chicago FD ladder truck at fire scene

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Firefighters on roof with snow

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Chicago FD ladder truck at fire scene

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Chicago FD Squad 7 and Squad 7A

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Firefighters on roof with snow

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Chicago FD Engine 119

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Frankfort, IL Box Alarm House Fire – Heavy Fog And No Hydrants Plus A Box Alarm Fire In Next Town Over, 2 1/2 Story Frame Heavy Fire From First Floor,Defensive Operations. Tim Olk

rural water supply at fire scene

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Firefighters at winter fire scene

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Firefighters at winter fire scene

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Firefighters at winter fire scene

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Firefighters at winter fire scene

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Firefighters at winter fire scene

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Frankfort FPD fire engine

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FF in PPE with saw

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Firefighter on ladder in smoke

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Firefighters at winter fire scene

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Chicago Engine 49 and Truck 33 arrived to find heavy fire from the roof of a 2 sty frame @ 4431 S Wood.  Tower 39, the second truck,  arrived and requested a Box due to the amount of smoke and fire showing. Companies lead out 4 lines and Engine 49 utilized their deck gun to knock the fire. Chi-Town Fire Photos

flames shoot from the roof of a house

Chi-town Fire Photos

Chicago FD Engine 49

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Firefighter deploys deck gun from engine

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Firefighters carry hose in the street

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Chicago FD Truck 33

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Chicago FD Engine 123

Chi-Town Fire Photos

Chicago firefighters responded to a church at 1540 N Spaulding today (2/20/18) for a fire in the steeple. Master streams from two tower ladders and a squad operated in a defensive posture. The fire did not communicate into the main church. A lightning strike is believed to have caused the fire.

church after steeple fire

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firefighter pulls hose at fire scene

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Chicago FD Tower Ladder 14 E-ONE tower ladder at church steeple fire

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Chicago FD Tower Ladder 14 E-ONE tower ladder at church steeple fire

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Chicago FD Tower Ladder 14 E-ONE tower ladder at church steeple fire

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church after steeple fire

Larry Shapiro photo

more photos at shapirophotography.net and chicagoareafire.com

This from Barry McRoy:

This article was on our local news. The little girl wants fire dept patches. She has cancer and her dad is a firefighter. Maybe you can post it.

Barry, Fire Chief, Colleton County Fire-Rescue

Excerpts from livenews5.com:

Mileena Painter, a 12-year-old girl from Riverside in St. Clair County (AL) was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia this past August. She is now home bound and not able to go to traditional school. For one of her school projects she has decided to collect firefighter patches from around the world.

“She started school on August 8th and went to half a day of 6th grade and was diagnosed on the 9th and she is home bound,” says Rachelle Painter, Mileena’s mom. “She can’t go to traditional school with her classmates. So she wanted to do a different type of project and since dad is a firefighter (at the Riverside Fire Department) and mom is a paramedic she thought this would be kind of fun.”

“What I think I feel good about is that some people don’t appreciate firefighters and paramedics like they should and that’s one of the reasons I wanted to do it too is because some people don’t appreciate them,” says Mileena. “And when they say they are fighting with me it makes me feel good and it makes me not want to cry.”

“So we have gotten T-shirts she is going to wear to chemo,” adds her mom. “She likes them nice and big because they have to access her port in chemotherapy. So those are good things to wear while she is getting chemotherapy and she can kinda feel the brotherhood of the firefighters.”

“The neatest thing that I think that we get when we receive the patches is the prayers that come with them,” says Rachelle. “The majority of them are sending letters or cards telling her that they are in it with her, they are fighting for her and they are praying for her. And that to me means more than the patch does.”

Mileena plans on keeping the patches and sewing them together into a quilt. She wants to then use the quilt as a way to share her story and her testimony with other people.

“Mileena has about two more years of chemotherapy to go thought so as far as I’m concerned they can keep sending those patches for the next two years and we can make lots of quilts,” says Rachelle.

“I want to thank all of my brothers and sisters in the fire service both in Illinois and in Alabama and also the Red Knights Organization that has really helped us out with a lot of this,” adds Kevin Painter. “It is a firefighters motorcycle club that goes all over the world. And some of the patches we have received are from chapters in different parts of the world. I would also like to thank our church family, God and our savior Jesus Christ who has walked us through this journey since August.”

If you would like to send firefighter patches, t-shirts, cards or letters, mail them to Mileena Painter PO Box 7 Riverside, Al 35135.

Chicago firefighters battled fire in a commercial building at 4749 W. Lake Street just after midnight Monday (2/12/18). The fire was discovered by Truck 29 while returning to quarters from a Still & Box Alarm fire. Flames had already engulfed the entire building and the alarm was eventually elevated to a 2-11. The building collapsed shortly after companies went to work. Two multi-versals along with elevated master streams from Tower Ladder 5, Tower Ladder 14, Squad 2A and Truck 29 were deployed. One member from the 5-11 Club Support Service Unit was injured after loosing his balance on a patch of ice and was transported to a hospital.

Chicago FD Tower Ladder 5 at work

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fire truck with lights in smoke at night

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Chicago FD Tower Ladder 14

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spare Chicago FD ladder truck at fire scene

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Chicago FD spare fire engine for Engine 95

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Chicago FD Tower Ladder 14 E-ONE Cyclone II HP100

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Firefighters pour water on building fire

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Chicago Firefighters with master stream at fire scene

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Chicago fire scene near elevated tracks

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spare Chicago FD fire engine at fire scene

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Chicago FD Engine 113 at fire scene

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