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the orland park prairie | September 1, 2016 | 3
From Aug. 23
OP tower rescue successful
Gas leak redirects traffic
near Orland Square
Bill Jones, Editor
An Orland Park public
works employee reportedly
was in stable condition Aug.
23 after he suffered a medical
emergency inside a water
tower near the northwest corner
of Silver Lake Country
Club.
Orland Fire Protection District
was dispatched around
1:49 p.m. to the tower, near
Golfview Drive and 88th Avenue,
according to Battalion
Chief Nick Cinquepalmi.
“It was our understanding
we had a medical emergency
... about 80 feet up,” Cinquepalmi
said.
A public works employee
reportedly had an undisclosed
medical emergency while
working inside the tower
and needed to be removed.
He reportedly had climbed
up through the water tower’s
internal ladder system before
suffering the emergency.
The fire district first assessed
the situation, then
called for “additional resources”
from its own companies,
Cinquepalmi said.
The employee reportedly
was reached with a ladder that
extends up to 100 feet. Responders
medically stabilized
him inside the tower, then
learned they had two options
for extracting the employee:
from the top or the underside
of the tank bulb through
a scuttle hole, Cinquepalmi
said.
“We worked with public
works to find the second form
of access,” he added.
Cinquepalmi said the employee
was closer to the scuttle
hole on the underside of
the bulb, and firefighters used
a harness to safely bring him
to the ground. He was then
transported to Palos Community
Hospital in stable condition,
Cinquepalmi said.
The rescue mission was
completed in roughly 40 minutes,
he added.
“I think the guys did an
excellent job,” Cinquepalmi
said, crediting the district’s
“depth of personnel” and confined
spaces training. “Everything
went well. All the companies
coordinated just fine.”
The public works employee
was never left alone in the
tower during the rescue, he
added.
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Orland Fire Protection District Battalion
Chief Nick Cinquepalmi captured this
image of firefighters working to rescue a
public works employee from the inside of
a water tower near Silver Lake Country
Club. Photo submitted
Tim Carroll, Assistant Editor
An Aug. 23 gas leak near Orland Square
required the gas company to shut off gas
and police to redirect traffic near the mall,
according to Village of Orland Park Public
Information Officer Joe La Margo.
“Police were there for traffic control,
and the Public Works Department was
there to provide emergency location to
[the leak], and the utility company shut off
the gas,” La Margo said.
Public Works helped map the utilities
lines and ensure that no other utilities
would be damaged in the process. Representatives
of the Orland Fire Protection
District also were on the scene, according
to La Margo. He added said no one was
hurt and there was no evacuation necessary
near the leak.
La Margo said he did not know how
long responding units were on the scene,
what caused the leak, and whether or not
it had been fixed or was still shut off as of
late afternoon Aug. 23.
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