Ice forms as firefighters battle Chicago’s worst blaze ‘in many years’ (Photo: NBC News) A massive fire ripped through a warehouse in Chicago’s South Side Tuesday night, as firefighters were hampered by bone-chilling temperatures so low that water froze on their uniforms. Photos taken at the scene showed flames towering above the abandoned warehouse as icicles formed on a fire hose.  One photo showed a firefighter with his jacket, hat and gloves caked in chunks of ice. Read the complete story.
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Ice forms as firefighters battle Chicago’s worst blaze ‘in many years’

(Photo: NBC News)

A massive fire ripped through a warehouse in Chicago’s South Side Tuesday night, as firefighters were hampered by bone-chilling temperatures so low that water froze on their uniforms.

Photos taken at the scene showed flames towering above the abandoned warehouse as icicles formed on a fire hose.  One photo showed a firefighter with his jacket, hat and gloves caked in chunks of ice.

Read the complete story.

Source: usnews.nbcnews.com

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