Thursday, August 11, 2011

Downtown Villa Grove, IL Fire

I was alerted by a text message from David Bellmore around 6:30 PM of a major fire in the downtown district of Villa Grove, a smaller town about 20 miles south of Champaign-Urbana, suggesting I go document the blaze. I quickly made my way and grabbed the camera gear and hit the road. Immediately upon exiting Urbana on Route 130 southbound I could see the smoke plume, from nearly 20 miles away. It wasn't hard to spot either. Not like an "oh yeah, something must be going on way down there" but more of a "oh crap."

Anyway, for an event such as this I will simply let the photos do the talking. It was very fun to later meet up with David, who also happens to be a fire fighter for the Edge-Scott FPD who was called from Urbana to assist in the fire.

I'm all for sharing by the way, but please don't let me find these images on other sites with my name cropped out. That's stealing.




























5 comments:

brube347 said...

great work Andrew, we are all relieved that David and all the other fire fighters came home safe. A very proud dad.

Anonymous said...

Thank you to all the firemen that were out there risking their lives. I used to live above the jewelry store so this was very upsetting for me to hear about!

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the pictures my 2 sons were in a couple of them!

Anonymous said...

im one of the fire fighters that are in your pictures i was wondering if there is any way that i can get some of them?

Andrew Pritchard said...

I'm happy to let you have some of the photos. If you'd like to let me know via email which ones you are in, I can send you the higher resolution images and you're free to make copies yourself. If you want me to send prints, I can make that happen as well but it may be a few weeks.