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🔥DON’T SEE THAT EVERYDAY 🔥 Repost from garden_state_size_up • Here’s one you don’t see everyday. Would have been a great place to go and preplan. Gurnee fire department extra alarm, pyramid fire with multiple Maydays. Crews could not get any equipment up near the pyramid due to the fact that there was water all around them. They finally drove through a field to get access to The 17,000-square-foot, 55-foot-tall pyramid-shaped home serves as a museum, as well as a residence for the owners who built it and filled it with Egyptian artifacts. Some 15 fire departments responded to the scene with between 45 and 50 firefighters.   Two firefighters issued a “May Day” after briefly getting lost inside the building. A “smoke explosion” also hampered firefighting efforts, he said. The fire was difficult to fight because of the style of construction. On the plus side, the moat served as a water source, Construction crews were working on the six story structure when the fire started. #garde...

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