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| VIDEO: Food warehouse roof collapses in extra-alarm fire on Chicago's South Side Firefighters spent nearly three hours battling an extra-alarm fire that started Thursday morning at a warehouse in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. The fire started at a warehouse at the Evans Food Group processing plant near 41st and Halsted around 8:30 a.m. Chicago Fire Department officials said the fire was later raised to a 3-11 alarm, bringing in extra crews to fight the flames. Heavy flames and thick black smoke could be seen coming from the roof of the warehouse. District Chief Jim McDonough said the fire spread from the original warehouse where it started to at least two connected buildings. The roofs of all three buildings collapsed during the fire. Crews used three tower ladder trucks and five large hand lines to contain the fire from the outside before it was safe to go inside to extinguish the remaining flames. WBBM-TV CBS 2 CHICAGO NTSB investigating after Chicago Transit Authority train crash leaves as many as 38 injured VIDEO: The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation after a Chicago Transit Authority Yellow Line train crashed into a piece of snow plow equipment on the track in Chicago Thursday morning, leaving as many as 38 people injured. It's one of the largest CTA train crashes in decades, NBC5 Investigates found. According to the Chicago Fire Department, the crash happened at 7519 N. Paulina, between Evanston and Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. In a statement, the CTA said the incident occurred at 10:39 a.m., when the agency received reports of a Yellow Line train "making contact with rail equipment in the Howard Rail Yard." CFD during a press conference later Thursday clarified that a Yellow Line train struck a snow CTA plow train in the rail yard, calling the incident "train vs. train." WMAQ-TV NBC 5 CHICAGO PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| VIDEO: Food warehouse roof collapses in extra-alarm fire in Chicago Firefighters spent nearly three hours battling an extra-alarm fire that started Thursday morning at a warehouse in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. The fire started at a warehouse at the Evans Food Group processing plant near 41st and Halsted around 8:30 a.m. Chicago Fire Department officials said the fire was later raised to a 3-11 alarm, bringing in extra crews to fight the flames. Heavy flames and thick black smoke could be seen coming from the roof of the warehouse. District Chief Jim McDonough said the fire spread from the original warehouse where it started to at least two connected buildings. The roofs of all three buildings collapsed during the fire. Crews used three tower ladder trucks and five large hand lines to contain the fire from the outside before it was safe to go inside to extinguish the remaining flames. WBBM-TV CBS 2 CHICAGO 12-year-old Californian Develops Fire Detection System That Wins Her $25,000 and Top Junior Scientist Award A 12-year-old girl from Miller Middle School in San Jose has won $25,000 in a science fair for her invention of a new fire detection system that's faster, cheaper, and more reliable than smoke detectors. The Thermo Fischer Junior Innovator's Challenge claims to be the nation's premier STEM contest for middle schoolers, and Shanya Gill won over second and third-place inventions of a smartphone app that can detect certain cancers and an experimental method of generating electricity through plant cells. In the summer of 2022, a fire destroyed a restaurant behind Shanya's house. That incident inspired her to create a fire-detection system that involved connecting an affordable thermal camera to a compact computer. GOOD NEWS NETWORK First responders 'hope for the best, plan for the worst' for Formula 1 drivers, guests at Las Vegas Grand Prix VIDEO: As the excitement builds for the Formula 1 race hitting the valley this weekend, local hospitals and first responders are taking proactive steps to ensure the safety of the drivers and hundreds of thousands of fans. Alison McKnickle, vice chief of trauma at UMC, shares insights into her team's extensive preparations over the last several months. Their motto: "Hope for the best, plan for the worst." "The trauma unit and the entire University Medical Center have worked on preparing for a potential incident involving formula participants or the community," she said. Regarding the safety of Formula 1 fans, Pamela O'Brien, who traveled from Vancouver, felt very comfortable at Thursday's grand opening. "There's a lot of security," O'Brien said. "Going into it, you feel safe. The checkpoints and all of the stuff like that. You feel secure." KTNV-TV ABC 13 LAS VEGAS Related Video: ‘Loose drain cover’ cancels first-ever F1 practice on Las Vegas Strip, officials say Check out key takeaways from Disaster Management Symposium webinars, register to view archives for free The inaugural Disaster Management Symposium was conducted Nov. 8, when consecutive hour-long webinars featured expert panelists exploring various aspects of the three main phases of a disaster for public safety and governments: planning, response and recovery. This virtual symposium was a joint effort of American City & County, IWCE's Urgent Communications and IWCE. If you attended the Disaster Management Symposium live and would like to revisit a session or listen to one you may have missed, check your e-mail for a link to archived recordings. For those who missed the live event entirely but would like to listen to the recorded webinars, visit the registration page to access the archived sessions. AMERICAN CITY AND COUNTY PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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