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Like some kind of prehistoric monsters
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/maninice630.jpgChicago Fire Department’s Lt Charley De Jesus walks around a vacant ice-covered warehouse that caught fire in Chicago. Fire department officials said this was the biggest fire the department has had to battle in years, requiring one-third of all Chicago firefighters on the scene at one point or another trying to put out the flames. An Arctic blast was gripping the US Midwest and Northeast, and fierce winds brought some locations down to -45 degrees. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters
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All hands on deck
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/brigade630.jpgFirefighters continue to battle the fire. Reportedly some 200 of them participated in the effort. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters
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Aiming high
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/melted630.jpgFirefighters spray down hot spots on the ice-encrusted building. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters
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A vertical glacier
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/oncrane630.jpgFirefighters continued to battle the warehouse fire for several days. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters
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Ossified if you stand still
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/jesusice630.jpgFirefighter Michael De Jesus is covered in ice as he mans a water cannon while fighting the warehouse fire. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters
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A grim situation
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/smoke630.jpgSmoke idles through the vacant warehouse. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images
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Smoking ruins
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/ruins630.jpgThe blaze has resulted in enormous damage. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images
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A blackened beast
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/tower630.gifA tower burnt black in the blaze has shaken off the ice. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters
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Defying gravity
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/formations630.jpgIce formations climb upwards as the blaze continues to rage nearby. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters
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Iced Lorry
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/truck630.jpgA truck enrobed in ice at the burnt building. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters
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Bedraggled behemoth
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/truck2630.jpgAnother truck sits under a scarcely credible matrix of ice. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters
