Wow - this skyscraper fire in Chicago is pretty impressive

[Rabrrrrrr]

I've been watcing the live video feed for probably 30 minutes.

Fascinating.

http://www.wbbm.com

[DebJ]

1. Hi Rabrrrr...is it on any cable networks?

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. That I don't know

I just added the link I forgot to add, though.

http://www.wbbm.com

[CornField]

8. WGN news at 9

They are covering it... Wow. Scary. They just moved the news crews back another block away from the building.

[Placebo]

2. What? Where? When?

EDIT: now i see it

135 S. LASALLE

no big deal.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. The LaSalle Bank, in the Loop

Looks like everyone was evacuated, and the fire has contained itself to one floow.

Don't know what floor, but it's up high - maybe the 30th?

[Ellen Forradalom]

17. 29th and 30th

in a 44-story building. It's an older building, 30s-era deco, no sprinkler system. My mother worked in that building for many years.

[Maple]

4. Is everybody out?

It's hard to tell from the reports.

[Skink]

6. Maybe it will melt the steel frame

and then the building will implode.

[Placebo]

7. lol no way

It's only on one floor

[nevergiveup]

10. Was there a cow involved?

[Placebo]

11. Not unless...

cows can take public transportation to get downtown, walk through revolving doors, take the elevator up to the 29th floor, and then spontaneously combust.

But hey, ya never know.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. LOL!

hey, you never know.

Cows might be up to a lot more than they let us see.

[Socialist Dem]

9. In Chicago

we have a cable channel called CLTV and they've pretty much been with this all night.

They said the floors are made of concrete and that's why it's not spreading to other floors, just moving through the 29th.

[CornField]

13. A representative from the bank says

the 29th floor is the trust division. Then again, he also says that the building has a sprinkler system.

[Socialist Dem]

14. CLTV reports 8 CFD firefighters are in critical condition

Fire still going as of 10:20pm CST.

Sending all good wishes!

[DS1]

15. That's gotta be nervewracking for the firefighter families to be watching

this live

[Ellen Forradalom]

16. Dayumn

It's a mother. That's two major high-rise fires in a year, after decades without incident.

[UpsideDownFlag]

18. i'd prefer to think of it as tragic....nt

[Socialist Dem]

19. CFD starting to request units from the suburbs,

to come help with this. Has moved to the 30th now, still going...10:44pm CST

[Lex]

20. Chicago takes its fires seriously since, well . . . you know.

The big one in 1871!