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Welcome to the home of Myers Fire Photos. My name is Dan Myers and I am a Fire Photographer in the greater Chicago area and owner of Myers Towing & Recovery. This web site contains Rescue & Fire Scene photos from Lake County, IL. I also have a Chicago Fire Department and Tow Truck galleries.

If you have any questions regarding the photos on this site, please contact me at firedan@mindspring.com

The photos are available to purchase for private use only and can be purchased through this web site. Please contact me with any photo use or purchase questions.
The photos on this web site are Copyright Protected and are not to be used without my permission.

Featured Galleries

Tractor-Trailer Cement Mixer flips over in Gurnee. : A loaded tractor-trailer cement mixer flipped over on the Rt.21 to Rt.120 entrance ramp in Gurnee, injuring the driver. The truck rolled into a deep ditch that was wet from heavy rains and it quickly sank into the soft mud from it's heavy weight. The Gurnee Police called Wildwood Service to the scene and the Cement Company called Northern Towing. Due to the steep, muddy ditch and the weight of the truck the decision was made to use wreckers from both Wildwood and Northern to recover the truck and save the load. With the cement laying on one side of the drum, the position of the truck laying in the steep ditch and the mud that the heavy truck sank into made this recovery a hard one. Throw in 90 hot and humid degrees and you got yourself a fun morning. With crews from both companies working together as a team they were able to recover the truck and tow the mixer back to it's shop were crews were able to safely remove the load before it hardened.

Tractor-Trailer Cement Mixer flips over in Gurnee.

2009 Tow Truck For Tots Parade : The second annual Tow Truck for Tots parade and toy drive was held on 11/8/09 and was a huge success. This year 309 tow trucks showed up in support of the kids and from the amount of over full Bridgeview dump trucks I would say we had three times the toys that were collected last year. The weather was perfect and everyone had a great time (except for the people sitting in traffic). Like last year I met up with all of my fellow Lake County towers at the Army Trail toll-plaza and from there we had a 30 truck convoy down to the Joliet CAT plant. The parade traveled from the CAT plant to Toyota Park in Bridgeview. This year our State Police escort has us really moving down the Interstate. Once we jumped off the Interstate the Bridgview, Chicago and State police had every intersection closed so we could sail right through. I was told that the parade was over 8 miles long. If your computer can handle it, try the slide show feature to view the photos.

2009 Tow Truck For Tots Parade

CFD New Apparatus : This gallery contains photos of new apparatus that have been put into service by the CFD. Tons of CFD photos are available from Steve Redick at www.ksc711.smugmug.com

CFD New Apparatus

This gallery contains photos of new apparatus that have been put into ...

Updated: Oct 04, 2009 8:32pm PST

CFD Engine Company : This gallery contains photos of Chicago's Engine Companies. Tons of CFD photos are available from Steve Redick at www.ksc711.smugmug.com

CFD Engine Company

This gallery contains photos of Chicago's Engine Companies. Tons of CF ...

Updated: Jun 14, 2009 3:21pm PST

Gallery Categories

Vehicle Accidents

Structure Fires

20 galleries with 235 photos

Updated: Jul 07, 2006 10:15am CST

Grass Fires

1 gallery with 12 photos

Updated: Jul 06, 2006 4:12pm CST

Water Rescue

6 galleries with 62 photos

Updated: Jul 13, 2006 11:55am CST

Chicago FD Apparatus

7 galleries with 234 photos

Updated: Oct 04, 2009 10:32pm CST

Haz-Mat Responses

1 gallery with 17 photos

Updated: Jul 07, 2006 3:06pm CST

Wrecker Photos

Wrecker Recoveries

Plane Crashes

2 galleries with 12 photos

Updated: Apr 25, 2009 8:54pm CST

Parade Photos

2 galleries with 76 photos

Updated: Dec 01, 2008 10:16pm CST

Wally Herman

2 galleries with 65 photos

Updated: Apr 29, 2007 1:50am CST

Training

4 galleries with 60 photos

Updated: Sep 15, 2006 3:32pm CST

Photos on this web site are COPYRIGHT PROTECTED and are not to be used in any way without permission. Please contact Dan Myers at firedan@mindspring.com