Full Text of HR0024 94th General Assembly
HR0024 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, On Monday, December 6, 2004, the Chicago Fire | 3 |
| Department dispatched more than one-third of its firefighting | 4 |
| force to the LaSalle National Bank, a 45-story high-rise | 5 |
| building located at 135 South LaSalle Street, to fight a | 6 |
| fierce, large-scale fire which had broken out on the building's | 7 |
| 29th floor; and
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| WHEREAS, The fire burned for five and a half hours, and | 9 |
| despite the intensity of the blaze, no fatalities occurred; 39 | 10 |
| people, including 24 firefighters, were hospitalized with | 11 |
| injuries that were not life threatening; and
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| WHEREAS, Under the leadership of Fire Commissioner Cortez | 13 |
| Trotter, the Chicago Fire Department's recently revised | 14 |
| "High-Rise Incident Command Policy" places a premium on search | 15 |
| and evacuation in high-rise fires; 50 to 75 firefighters are | 16 |
| assigned to rapid ascent teams whose job in a high-rise fire is | 17 |
| to locate and evacuate building occupants; these teams | 18 |
| conducted three sweeps of the LaSalle National Bank building | 19 |
| looking for trapped persons before firefighters expanded their | 20 |
| firefighting efforts to include both of the building's | 21 |
| stairwells and turned their attention exclusively to fighting | 22 |
| the fire; and
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| WHEREAS, A critical feature of the Chicago Fire | 24 |
| Department's newly-revised "High-Rise Incident Command Policy" | 25 |
| is its emphasis on improved communications between building | 26 |
| occupants, 911 dispatchers, and firefighters, and on better | 27 |
| coordination between fire department personnel and building | 28 |
| management; when put to the test, the Chicago Fire Department's | 29 |
| innovative new plan for fighting high-rise fires averted what | 30 |
| could have been a deadly disaster on December 6, 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Several firefighters who responded to the call |
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| were treated for injuries, including Assistant Deputy Fire | 2 |
| Commissioner Thomas Donnellan, Battalion Chief James Carroll, | 3 |
| Captain John Collins, Firefighter James Gorman, Captain James | 4 |
| Clarke, Captain Arthur Lewis, Lieutenant Robert Walters, | 5 |
| Lieutenant Ronald Michi, Firefighter Frank Perez, Firefighter | 6 |
| Martinez Chapman, Firefighter Patrick McCauley, Firefighter | 7 |
| Anthony Consola, Firefighter William Hopkins, Firefighter | 8 |
| Anthony Tobar, Firefighter/EMT Michael McLaughlin, Firefighter | 9 |
| Larry Paller, Firefighter Tim Bailey, Firefighter Mark Jadwin, | 10 |
| Firefighter Steve Magana, Firefighter Gerald Barry, | 11 |
| Firefighter William Vaci, Candidate Firefighter James Gorman, | 12 |
| Candidate Firefighter Anthony Serritella, and Candidate | 13 |
| Firefighter Victor Lecodet; and
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| WHEREAS, Fire Commissioner Cortez Trotter and the members | 15 |
| of the Chicago Fire Department that worked to rescue the | 16 |
| workers in the LaSalle National Bank building are to be | 17 |
| commended for their efforts; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 19 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 20 |
| we thank Fire Commissioner Cortez Trotter and the many | 21 |
| firefighters who responded to the call on December 6, 2004, for | 22 |
| their efforts in saving lives and fighting the LaSalle National | 23 |
| Bank building fire; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 25 |
| presented to the Chicago Fire Department as an expression of | 26 |
| our respect and esteem.
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