Chicago 3-11 Fire Involving Explosions and Truss Roof Buildings

[@Bobbyd0052]

GREAT JOB CHI TOWN FD ! EXCELLENT VIDEO, VERY CLEAR ,GREAT ANGELS, THANK YOU !🇺🇸

[@kirbythompson8032]

Great video! Excellent variety of shots beautifully edited.

[@gillesrenaud6926]

Very good footage sir. Merci 🇨🇦

[@williamschlenger1518]

Great video.Dangerous 🔥

[@boataxe4605]

A miracle that everyone got out of the apartment building considering that it happened at 3:30am. Guess the smoke detectors worked!

[@carylee2002]

Wow..two tower trucks, collapsed building and a3-11 and still have a hard time putting it out...looks like a arson job.

[@xheralt]

Two towers plus the squad (snorkel unit) for three elevated master streams. Plus some solid monitor work. Pity none of the engines were able to deploy their deck guns, CFD is one of the few departments regularly featured on YT that remembers to use them on occasion ;)

[@alarmoffice711]

@@xheralt 3 towers: 23, 21 & 14

[@dbyers3897]

I don't know how you determined arson as the likely cause. There are apparently two lines of inquiry by OFI. There is evidence the fire originated under an outside staircase between the two buildings. Also, one of the buildings was cited for code violations & ordered to fix electrical problems. These may be related but that seems doubtful to me. As for the size of the fire, it is not unusual for fires starting in the early AM hours to grow significantly before they are reported & mitigation can begin. Gas cylinders in the brewery apparently exploded, rapidly increasing the volume of fire regardless of their contents. In this case they were reported to contain CO2 & nitrogen. Explosions cause heat to be generated & the fire to expand outward then air to be rapidly sucked into the fire thereby providing a bolus of O2.

[@jimgriffin9924]

Question, At about 6:00, I noticed an fuel tanker truck on the left side of the screen. Does the CFD have their own fuel tankers to make certain the trucks don't run out of fuel at a major fire?

[@SRResquire]

Fleet management runs fuel trucks for all vehicles …..CFD used to have their own fuel trucks but that was years ago

[@jimgriffin9924]

@@SRResquire Thanks. Never lived in a city the size of Chicago.

[@craigw.miller9820]

Snokel working