Barrington Countryside FPD Mansion Fire - 04/18/15

April 18, 2015 According to a neighbor, a resident living at this $2M home in Barrington Hills accidentally set this blaze doing yard work. Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District went from a 1st level box alarm quickly to a 5th to keep water coming in and keep the manpower fresh. There are NO fire hydrants in this neighborhood making fighting a fire like this, extremely problematic. There were 4 tanks set up to hold water that the engines and trucks could draw from, as though they were fire hydrants. The problem being, they go through a lot of water, really quick. Each one of those tanks only holds 3000 gallons of water, which one truck and exhaust in a minute or 2.

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