Chicago Fire: Over 200 Chicago Firefighters Fight 5-11 Alarm Fire At Warehouse Building On Nelson St
Chicago firefighters and paramedics responded about 2:00 AM Sunday to a warehouse fire in the 2600 block of West Nelson Street. Chicago firefighters arrived on the scene to discover a fire toward the center of the building, which was hard to access. The fire had already spread to the upper three floors of the old style multi-purpose brick warehouse.
Two parts of the building collapsed while firefighters were working, but firefighters were taking collapse precautions, and no injuries were reported.
A large number of ladder trucks and fire engines surrounded the block. Support vehicles, such as a hose wagon, turret wagon, extra turret truck, breathing apparatus truck, rehab truck, a road service truck, the command vehicle and several other vehicles also were on the scene.
A firefighter rehab area was marked off with blue tape. Twelve major hose streams were dumping water on the fire with good heavy water streams in defensive fire attack mode. The water department was standing by in case there was any trouble with water flow.
The 5-11 was struck out about 9:25 a.m. The fire officer accidentally called out for a strike out of the box -- a lesser size fire. The dispatcher replied, "I think you mean the 5-11." The officer answered back, "Yes, the 5-11 (he chuckled as this was no ordinary box).
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