Photo: John Gress/Reuters

No, the lead photo is not the work of Mr. Freeze—that would be Gotham—but rather, frigid temperatures that gripped Chicago all of last week. A massive fire broke out at an abandoned warehouse in Chicago’s South Side last Tuesday night, a blaze the scale of which the city hasn’t witnessed in years. A huge fleet of firefighters responded to the scene to suppress the flames, where they began to shower the building in water. Only the jets of water froze immediately on contact, leaving the warehouse and everything around it—cars, sidewalks, equipment—encased in a thick layer of ice. The fire was eventually put out, but not before hell froze over. More photos of the site, after the jump.

Photo: John Gress/Reuters

Photo: John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune

Photo: John Gress/Reuters

[via The Atlantic]

by Samuel Medina

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