Mail Online - A deep arctic freeze has locked parts of
the Midwest to the Northeast in their fourth day of glacial
temperatures felt as low as -36F degrees - freezing fountains, faces, and as
breathtakingly seen in Chicago, entire buildings.
In the Windy City firemen battled a five-alarm warehouse fire in single-digit temperatures last night,
with the extreme cold hindering the process. Water froze on
firefighters’ gloves almost as soon as it left their hoses, and today,
the entire façade of the building, located on the city’s South Side was
coated in sheets of ice.
In
New York's Manhattan, commuters similarly woke to temperatures around
12-degrees today, but with wind gusts of 15-20 mph, it felt more like
five below as people started their work day.
The
cold snap arrived on Saturday night as waves of Arctic air swept south
from Canada, pushing temperatures to dangerous lows and leaving a
section of the country well-versed in winter's pains reeling.
Blistering cold: A deep arctic freeze has locked
parts of the
Midwest to the Northeast in below freezing temperatures as
seen with this frozen fountain in New York City's Bryant
Park on
Wednesday
Update: Bridgeport Warehouse Fire Flares Again
NBC Chicago - The fire that lit up Chicago skies Tuesday night and consumed a third of the city's fire department rekindled Thursday morning.
Sky 5 images of the abandoned
warehouse at 37th Street and Ashland Avenue in Bridgeport show flames
again shooting through the roof and smoke pouring south as fire
equipment gathered at the building. The flames began again just before 6
a.m.
Chicago Fire officials called it a "significant rekindle" that they were expecting with crews already on the scene.
