Building Heat = More Bodies
The high temperature tied a record at 102 today.
And while the Chicago area hasn't seen three straight days in the 100s since 1947, that could change this week.
The temperature hit 102 degrees at the official recording station at O'Hare International Airport at 1:42 p.m., according to the National Weather Service, although the official temperature at 2 p.m. was back to 101. And WGN-TV meteorologist Tom Skilling is forecasting a high around 101 on Thursday and 100 on Friday.
Anyone remember 1995? When the temps didn't drop for a week straight and several hundred bodies started turning up at the morgue.
Now imagine that with our manpower shortages.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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I'll have my Cleofus T Firefly from the westside medium rare.
Don't panic! McPlymouthRock says that the weather is not at all tied to crime! Everything will be fine as long as people stay away from the cool water near the hot beaches at North and Oak!
003 District had 3 shot in a drive by at
830 E. Marquette at freaking 2 pm this afternoon. Just your run of the mill drive by, and of course, the poor "victims" heard shots, felt pain, and saw nothing.
Remember back in 1995, the wagons lined up at the morgue, waiting to drop off???!!!
I remember 1995 but I don't remember how many refrigerated 40 foot trailers they rented to stick dead bodies in though.
The Mayor don't give a shit as long as his family is not affected.
Anyone remember 1995? When the temps didn't drop for a week straight and several hundred bodies started turning up at the morgue.
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I recall being in a line of as many as 11 Wagons waiting to drop off a body. If it wasn't already a "stinker", it was by the time you got your turn to get inside.
They also had a slew of refrigerated trailers to store the "overflow".
One possibility: really severe heat may function as cold and rainy weather does, driving people indoors to air conditioning. So there could be less activity on the streets and less violence.
One can only hope.
Just A Civilian (who will be camping in a cold bath tomorrow)
TOO HOT FOR SHITHEADS???? so far it seems like it was a fairly quite nite for the 4th of july in chicago
Ok, so it may take us longer to get around to them.
Tough shit ! Tell the neighbors to use vicks under their nose.
We are doing more with less.
Not sure just where all the tax $ is going.
Whenever I see a La Grou refrigerated truck I think back to the heatwave of 1995, even though they did change the color of their trucks since then.
"several hundred" deaths in 1995? Try approximately 750.
I heard its so hot that McMayflower is going to allow coppers to use the AC in the cruisers for 10 min each hour. But you still have to wear long sleeves and your 1947 hat.
There's been alot of heat related deaths... from hot lead.
TOO HOT FOR SHITHEADS???
You spoke too soon again Superintendent.
The Mayor don't give a shit as long as his family is not affected.
7/05/2012 12:33:00 AM
You're right, he doesn't give a shit.
He's on vacation.
Not even in Chicago.
Anonymous said...
OK experienced Police Officers, a question from a grateful citizen. Being ignorant to the reality of how the drug trade operation works, I have a question that bothers me about the violence and root causes; what is the real impact of politician's created 'Sanctuary City' & turning a blind eye to illegal immigration in Chicago on all of this violence?
Seems their is much focus on black on black violence for drug turf, but little said about the MexiCAN suppliers.
There were some articles talking about the alarming sophistication and agreements between the Cartels and the gangs of all color, but our President, Alderbeasts, Mayor, and state reps always claim they will do anything to stem the violence, except addressing issues of illegal immigration.
So from the perspective on the front line on the beat, in the tac teams, or as detectives, how does it work, what do you see, how involved are the illegal immigrants part of the mule system, and what are the problems?
7/05/2012 03:00:00 AM
This is just another media troll working on a story.
Too lazy to do real investigative work so he comes here for his answers.
Why has Tommy Skilling forsaken us? WHY?
3:39... I too think the same thing when I end up behind one in traffic.
Anonymous said...
I remember 1995 but I don't remember how many refrigerated 40 foot trailers they rented to stick dead bodies in though.
The Mayor don't give a shit as long as his family is not affected.
7/05/2012 12:33:00 AM
He cared,because those trailer contracts given to buddies.
I remember 1995, also I remember area One detectives going out on the deaths. Also there was no air conditioning in area One until a detective called Sneed, she reported it and the next day the air was turned on.
Was in 011 in 1995. Many bodies of mostly older people who were too afraid to even crack their windows because of the locals.
Where's those free A.C. units for ghetto folks?
I remember a wagon man come on the air and say "Squad, we have 7 stacked like cordwood in the back. Can we head down to the morgue now?"
It got really bad when all the electrical transformers started overheating and large areas of the city were without power.
The City is now gearing up for the TASTE. Where will LaGrou ever get enough reefer trucks?
Whenever I see a La Grou refrigerated truck I think back to the heatwave of 1995, even though they did change the color of their trucks since then.
Funny you say that.
Same here. There is also a big sign I see driving on I55 around the Bolingbrook area that always brings back memories.
Anonymous said...
One possibility: really severe heat may function as cold and rainy weather does, driving people indoors to air conditioning. So there could be less activity on the streets and less violence.
One can only hope.
Just A Civilian (who will be camping in a cold bath tomorrow)
You're kidding right? Because if you think the homes where these morons crawl out of are air conditioned, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Cfd responded to over 3500 calls between midnight July 3rd and midnight July 4th! Stay safe to my brothers and sisters on the cpd.
More manpower to assign to the front office to check on granny and gramps? When their own families and communities don't give a shit? Sorry, but when it gets very hot certain segments of the population are at greater risk. And unfortunately, some die. Short of air-conditioning or relocating everyone affected, what are the police going to do about it?
Shit, I was in 012 and assigned to the morgue as a supervisor for the incoming bodies. Worse job I ever did as a cop.
"several hundred" deaths in 1995? Try approximately 750.
7/05/2012 03:52:00 AM
Sooooo several hundred
I recall being in a line of as many as 11 Wagons waiting to drop off a body. If it wasn't already a "stinker", it was by the time you got your turn to get inside.
They also had a slew of refrigerated trailers to store the "overflow".
7/05/2012 12:59:00 AM
11th? You got there early. I remember being 38th in a line with four bodies stacked up in the wagon.
For the young gel-heads on the job that dont know anything about nuthin, July 1995 had 2 weeks of upper 90s up to 106 degrees n humid - stalled over Chgo. Day n night.
739 deaths were attributed to the heat but of course the number was higher. It looked bad for the city that so many senior citizens n lower income people were dying - mostly alone.
The morgue had reefer trucks to hold the bodies and the city mobilized private ambulances and assigned them to firehouses to augment CFD who were otherwise busy retrieving bodies.
Was working the wagon on midnights during the 1995 heat wave and we had to take a DOA down to the morgue at the beginnning of our tour. When we arrived the guy at the desk said "take a number we're busy". We laughed, thinking he was joking, and then waited nearly the entire tour for them to take the body. When we left we saw a long line of wagons waiting to get in.
Civilian comment - I keep noticing how the Trib finds a way to work the word "gang" into all of the recent shooting stories when they didn't before - justification for the Ceasefire payoff or just trying to make Rahm's neighbors feel safer because they are far away from the gangs (or at least they think they are...)
I was a wagonman back in 95 in 18,Some days I had 2/3 bodise in the truck,sometimes waiting 4/6 hours in line at the morgue,then going back out to gather more souls.Boy those were the days.HOT HOT HOT...
Yeah, I remember 1995 - my kids were all still young then, and we only had one, small, inadequate air conditioner and a few box fans. One night we had a power outage, so we all went into the basement and spread our sheets and pillows on the concrete basement floor until the power came on again.
Anonymous at 2:03 has a point - people will likely be huddled around their air conditioners and hanging out at cooling centers. Yesterday I walked from SwedishCov (my husband is there right now) to home, about a mile and a half - I'd just missed the Lincoln Ave. bus and preferred to walk rather than wait God knows how long for the next one. There was NOBODY on the street. Lots of cars, but nobody walking except me. It was downright eerie.
What about the ac in the first district, benn broken for weeks upstairs. Hotter inside than out.
Out of control last night.....
more people have a/c now and enough people remember 1995, that they're more careful, checking on elders, etc
that was the time to get a way with a homicide. Suffocate some one elderly, the morgue was so screwed up, no one really was given an autopsy. What the heck. We had a woman who died in the heat wave, the me ruled death/natural/cardioid/heat related. The daughter called and accused the recently paroled brother. Claimed insurance job. I count four Le Grou trailers, at the morgue, and also see at least eight at the Taste of Chicago.
I think i scraped up 13 of them...ran out of body bags, had to ask neighbors for garbage bags to catch the juice. oh the good old days....
That summer left me with some grisly images for sure! One thing FOP did right, fighting to make sure we don't have to touch those bloated, stinky bags of meat anymore. It may be a pain waiting for the "body snatchers", but it sure beats bagging and dragging one those things!!!
The human body is an absolute horror by about day 4.
Anonymous said...
Ok, so it may take us longer to get around to them.
Tough shit ! Tell the neighbors to use vicks under their nose.
We are doing more with less.
Not sure just where all the tax $ is going.
7/05/2012 03:05:00 AM
Don't use vicks all that does is open up the nasal passages. Just stick your fingers in your nose.
The owner of LaGROU Distribution was a friend of the family. He would often talk about how leasing his refridgerated trailers to the morgue for body storage was a bad idea in hindsight. Said his stomach would turn every time they showed the morgue and you could see the trailer in the background because he knew that the association would be there forever. He never would say what he did with those trailers after that, though...
To the "grateful citizen", find someone else to do the research for your term paper
"I remember 1995 but I don't remember how many refrigerated 40 foot trailers they rented to stick dead bodies in though."
--7/05/2012 12:33:00 AM
Exhausted morgue attendants in pink disposable scrubs, sitting by the dock with their heads in their hands.
105 degrees and 100% humidity.
"The Mayor don't give a shit as long as his family is not affected."
True, dat. There have not been all that many calls to the city, etc. This is a bad sign, but it's inevitable. A lot of quiet elderly will die alone in this. Your food, your bed, your medication, everything is at home. Person may be physically disabled, very ill. Sure as hell not going to trundle themselves blocks down the street to a bus stop, go sit in some library or something until it closes, then come all the way back to sleep in 100+. That's crazy. Can't get to the store themselves on a good day.
Many are afraid to open windows because something will be immediately climbing in. No family ever comes to do, so there is no maintenance; loose carpet on stairs, frayed wires, porch starting to tilt, etc. All that speed and power and muscle is over on the ball court, yelling and s__t. I have hurt myself yanking and prying stuck windows open -- and then who is going to shut it later?
Way to go is "shelter in place." Less than half a stack will buy Grandma a 5000 BTU off the skid at Big Barn, and more than pay for the juice to run it the rest of the summer.
You know the drill, though. Motherf__ers will buy themselves rims instead, then drive to Grandma's to drop off babies for free care, get another "loan," steal her TV, etc.
That elderly woman killed by her son -- six center-mass while sitting in her chair in the basement of her little house, then he left her there a few days -- had "recently retired from AT&T," according to one news story.
You know that there are about 57 adult dependents who are sorry to hear of her passing...
Happened near us in 1995. Daughter was going to pick up her mother to take her to the hairdresser. Mom was dead by then.
Hairdo can wait. Get an A/C, load it into your automobile, and get it over there. Like, right now.
Unless you got more pressing business on the corner.
Ahh my ppo year....welcome to the job kid...lift with your legs..
And the "Murder" clearance rate is at around 22% for the year.
I still have uniforms airing out on the clothes line from 1995....JR!
"It got really bad when all the electrical transformers started overheating and large areas of the city were without power."
--7/05/2012 07:55:00 AM
During the 1995 blast, plenty of houses and apartment buildings were without running water for a while if they were located on a high-point street like Narragansett, Ridge, etc. -- these are former ancient lake shorelines. Water runs downhill, of course, and what you had downhill was a combination of people opening hydrants and Yuppies watering lawns and washing cars like it was double-urgent.
It all added up. Turn on the faucet and listen to the air sucking back into it...
Anonymous said...
Why has Tommy Skilling forsaken us? WHY?
7/05/2012 07:00:00 AM
Who's your Skilling now?!?
I remember going to check out the infamous 'suspicious odor' in that heat wave. After getting there the neighbors started to gather on the sidewalk right in front. We scoped out what was inside, got our cigars and told them they better get out of the way and that they'd want to stand far away.
Well, they didn't listen, and after we scraped this guy into a body bag we headed outside. Took about 4 seconds for people to start gagging, sputtering, and running. Some funny shit. I think we took the long way home after that and stopped at Jimmy's for a couple of dogs. As usual, the main discussion was where to have lunch, even with a stinker in the back, while we waited at the morgue.
Hope it doesn't get that bad again. All in all, it was a sad situation. Then I remember having to knock on doors to check on people for days on end in the sweltering heat.
He never would say what he did with those trailers after that, though...
7/05/2012 12:32:00 PM
That reefer probably hauled the steak you had on the grill yesterday. Mmmm! Tasty! Hope you had a happy 4th!
Who cares, removals are privatized. You can keep your sgt's pay for the day.
'95? the good ole days. I was on the wagon then, two trips to the ME and you could call it a tour...
vaporub doesnt work. a dinosaur recommended cigarette filters...
Anonymous said...
To the "grateful citizen", find someone else to do the research for your term paper
7/05/2012 01:28:00 PM
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Not a term paper, and not a dickhead question. Who better to get a realistic front row view of this most illogical shitshow ever dreamed up, and have to clean-up the mess that others are blindly creating?
SSC has opened alot of people's eyes to the truth of what is really going on is not reported by the 'machine'; very interested in how obvious some of this shit with the gang / cartel relationship is, but is not reported for the same reason criminal descriptions are not longer reported. When you have Alderman's fathers arrested for involvement in fake ID rings, this shit has got to be the tip of the iceberg.
fr flapjaw needs to get out there and remind folks, we are all gods children. maybe he lost some of his magic. ask him why we cant just get along. the thing is there is some people who cant take the heat. but some need no reason at all to be pimples on the ass of progress. the gene pool needs to be filtered.
Where's those free A.C. units for ghetto folks?
7/05/2012 07:54:00 AM
You have to turn in your cash card from the gun turn in a couple weeks ago to get one....
"Why has Tommy Skilling forsaken us? WHY?"
--7/05/2012 07:00:00 AM
Tom's right here with everyone else under the Heat Cap, doing his job.
More than you can say about the Mayor.
"vaporub doesnt work. a dinosaur recommended cigarette filters...
7/05/2012 08:43:00 PM"
Speak for yourself. Works like a champ. Go right ahead & stick your virginia slims filters up your schnoz,I'll stick w/ the Vicks
Here, photo gallery of the lethal 1995 heat wave.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-120706-heat-wave-1995-pictures,0,3856439.photogallery
You'll have to skip over a couple of commercials for stupid T-shirts, etc., that the Tribune has tastefully inserted among depictions of the removal of the dead, mass graves, etc.
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