VIDEO: Firefighters stand by for ComEd to shut down power and then extinguish a shed fire and pole fire ignited by a downed power line, after they carefully extinguished burning building material under siding from a house that was energized by the downed power line.
Thunderstorm with high winds hit the northwest suburbs including just before 8:00 a.m. Monday.
Storm damage list …
Structure fire 800 block of North Patton Avenue.
1590 North Rand Starbucks, Palatine … transformer blew
Gas leak in the building Toyota dealership Rand & Hicks
Male blown off of the roof, 1300 block Carpenter Drive
Forsberg Street, Palatine, several trees down
800 block North Ridge … branches down, wires down
Campbell and Kennicott branches down
Dwyer and Francis … limb blocking entire roadway
1100 block East Henry tree on the power line
800 block West Tanglewood tree down in the road
Grove and Princeton tree down
Thomas and Beverly line down
White Oak and Arlington Heights Road tree down in roadway.
1700 Algonquin
500 block East Miner street … tree uprooted. Tree leaning on pole.
400 block East Sunset tree snapped at the trunk, blocking roadway.
600 block of Patton Drive, Buffalo Grove tree on a car.
Lake Cook at Weidner tree in roadway.
Hasbrook Park tree across Maude Avenue.
Windsor Woods condo, 2638 North Windsor … tree on a car
Lillian and Arlington Heights Road tree limb in the road.
Stoplights out Dryden and Rand.
Thomas and Beverly … line down.
1100 block East Henry tree down on power line.
800 block North Ridge branches brought down power line
Brown and Yale tree down
Kirchhoff and Central … tree down in road
700 block South Kaspar
2900 North Dunton line down
5 West Suffield power lines down
I’m out of town. Thank you very much for posting the damage sites. I’m good!