The Arctic blast that took over most of North America is finally starting to pass, but a warehouse in Chicago’s South Side is its latest victim.
On Tuesday the warehouse caught on fire and when firefighters went to put out the blaze, the below freezing temperatures froze the water from their hoses! Two days later another fire broke out in the same warehouse and once again the the water from the fire hoses froze.
Now the building looks like one massive ice castle in the middle of the city!
More than 200 firefighters were called to control the blaze which could be seen for miles away. Now, the firefighters are trying to convince the city that the warehouse should be torn down. It was already a very old building and now with the thick sheet of ice all over it, there is a chance that it could collapse under the weight.
The cause of the fires are unknown, but the fact that the warehouse is full of old timber is probably why and how they spread so fast.