BRKG High Rise Fire in Chicago 25 story high rise with fire on 9 upper floors.

vessie

Has No Life - Lives on TB
THIS is why I tell my husband when we’re traveling and staying in a highrise, that I will never stay in a room that’s above the 7th floor.

I had to explain to the knucklehead that fire truck ladders don’t reach past that. Duh. V
 

Ta-wo-di

Veteran Member
THIS is why I tell my husband when we’re traveling and staying in a highrise, that I will never stay in a room that’s above the 7th floor.

I had to explain to the knucklehead that fire truck ladders don’t reach past that. Duh. V
I make if the 5th floor. As a volunteer FF, that was my rule of thumb considering a story is roughly 12 feet and a 100 foot aerial has to go up at an angle. I want to make sure they reach me and my loved ones.
 

Wildweasel

F-4 Phantoms Phorever
THIS is why I tell my husband when we’re traveling and staying in a highrise, that I will never stay in a room that’s above the 7th floor.

I had to explain to the knucklehead that fire truck ladders don’t reach past that. Duh. V
Back before 9/11 Madame Wildweasel had to go to NYC on a work trip to visit the Federal Reserve offices on Wall Street and in the WRC. The Millenium hotel had just opened and she was put up in a room on the upper floors when the Fed booked rooms for attendees to their conference.

Poor woman was terrified looking out of the windows from a 60th floor window and had to be moved to the lowest floor in the hotel. But I don't think she got down to the level a fire ladder could reach.
 

vessie

Has No Life - Lives on TB
A Norwegian making Lutefisk?

Looks like what happened when my grandma used to make it. V
 
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Texican

Live Free & Die Free.... God Freedom Country....
The fire appears to not travel horizontally, probably due to fire walls between the units stopping the horizontal spread of the fire.

Stairwells are designed and constructed as safe havens from fires and other disasters and only have the stairs and firewalls around them to protect persons in the stairwell as they exit down the building and out of the building.

Texican....
 

Satanta

Stone Cold Crazy
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THIS is why I tell my husband when we’re traveling and staying in a highrise, that I will never stay in a room that’s above the 7th floor.

I had to explain to the knucklehead that fire truck ladders don’t reach past that. Duh. V
I simply would not stay in one.

IF I had to and had a chance to prepare I'd take some reppelling rope or a BASE jump chute. Stayed at a friends condo-it was five or six up. First thing I did was determine where th standard stairs were then planned an alternate. Her balcony was over others so I could easilly go down that route-or up. cross the roof and go down a different set depending on the fire.

But I am paranoid-I try to have multiple plans to Evacuate self from any situation if thinghs go South.
 
I simply would not stay in one.

IF I had to and had a chance to prepare I'd take some reppelling rope or a BASE jump chute. Stayed at a friends condo-it was five or six up. First thing I did was determine where th standard stairs were then planned an alternate. Her balcony was over others so I could easilly go down that route-or up. cross the roof and go down a different set depending on the fire.

But I am paranoid-I try to have multiple plans to Evacuate self from any situation if thinghs go South.
And a plan to kill everyone you meet;)
 

Satanta

Stone Cold Crazy
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And a plan to kill everyone you meet;)
Sure, if neccesary. But as I got older I determined that killing is not always the answer.

Now my plan is to Damage them so much they spend the rest of their lives bedridden, blind and Mute with a Colostomy bag and feeding tube having to listen to 'Baby Shark' 14 hours a day then 'Small World' from Disney the rest.
 
I simply would not stay in one.

IF I had to and had a chance to prepare I'd take some reppelling rope or a BASE jump chute. Stayed at a friends condo-it was five or six up. First thing I did was determine where th standard stairs were then planned an alternate. Her balcony was over others so I could easilly go down that route-or up. cross the roof and go down a different set depending on the fire.

But I am paranoid-I try to have multiple plans to Evacuate self from any situation if thinghs go South.
After 9-11 there was some interest in Executive escape perps. Even a knapsack of proper rope would help.
 

Macgyver

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I simply would not stay in one.

IF I had to and had a chance to prepare I'd take some reppelling rope or a BASE jump chute. Stayed at a friends condo-it was five or six up. First thing I did was determine where th standard stairs were then planned an alternate. Her balcony was over others so I could easilly go down that route-or up. cross the roof and go down a different set depending on the fire.

But I am paranoid-I try to have multiple plans to Evacuate self from any situation if thinghs go South.
Years ago a friend of mines son went to NJIT.
Yep dorms were high buildings.
First weekend home he grabbed a harness, rope, and a axe to remove the non operational window.
 

homecanner1

Veteran Member
If you told me Jarrett made a phone call and that we’re watching some storage locker of Obama classified go up in smoke, previously intended for his library, I might consider that feasible.
 

compchyk

The Computer Chyck
Back before 9/11 Madame Wildweasel had to go to NYC on a work trip to visit the Federal Reserve offices on Wall Street and in the WRC. The Millenium hotel had just opened and she was put up in a room on the upper floors when the Fed booked rooms for attendees to their conference.

Poor woman was terrified looking out of the windows from a 60th floor window and had to be moved to the lowest floor in the hotel. But I don't think she got down to the level a fire ladder could reach.
that building had a 6ft sway too (pretty awesome view)
 

compchyk

The Computer Chyck
Years ago a friend of mines son went to NJIT.
Yep dorms were high buildings.
First weekend home he grabbed a harness, rope, and a axe to remove the non operational window.
I went to NJIT (Newark, NJ) never saw high rises for dorms? Everything in that area was about 5-6 floors?
 
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