Harvey Fire and Surrounding Fire Departments Respond to 3 Alarm Fire
Harvey Fire and Surrounding Fire Departments Respond to 3 Alarm Fire (Harvey, IL) – At approximately 4:50 p.m. on Saturday, October 1, the Harvey Fire Department (HFD) was dispatched to 15406 Broadway Avenue. There was a large fire at a three-story apartment building. Three people were injured and two went to the hospital in critical condition, no fatalities.
One of the injured persons was a Harvey Police officer, he was injured while trying to recover a person jumping from the 3rd floor. The fire was brought under control at 7:51p.m.
Several fire departments from surrounding areas were on the scene to assist in putting the fire out.The cause of the fire is still unknown and is under investigation.
About Harvey, Illinois
The history of the founding of Harvey — before it assumed that name in 1890 — is somewhat vague, and what is available was contained briefly in an introduction to a supplement published by the Harvey Tribune-Citizen in 1902. It sets forth the actual founding of “South Lawn,” the name the community was known before the advent of Turlington W. Harvey and what is know today as the City of Harvey.
In the 1850s, the Illinois legislature granted the Illinois Central Railroad each alternate section of land along its proposed route. Included in these sections was “Section Eight,” the southern portion of 1700 acres of Section was sold to C.P. Holden of Kentucky in 1865.
Holden sold his interest to a syndicate in 1871 and 1872. The syndicate inaugurated the first formal action of creating a community by dividing the plot of 1700 acres into blocks and recording the entire plot.
A small map and brochure constituted the community’s first advertisement, offering “large lots and gardens for $100, with free transportation to and from Chicago for a year to those who actually became settlers.”
Harvey Fire and Surrounding Fire Departments Respond to 3 Alarm Fire
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