Second additional alarm fire hits Chicago in 24 hours

Lina Portman2 weeks ago

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William Lee, Caroline Kubzansky

Chicago Tribune

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For the second day in a row, Chicago firefighters had to battle an extra-alarm blaze on the city's West Side as a heat wave persisted over the city and much of the Midwest, although authorities said no one was injured in the fire.

The latest fire occurred shortly after 6 p.m. in a two-story brick building Wednesday afternoon at 2810 W. Grand Ave. in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, Chicago Fire Department officials said in a social media post.

First District Fire Chief Jim McDonough said everyone who worked at the businesses on site was evacuated from the building by the time firefighters arrived on scene.

Although the alarm rose to 3-11, triggering one of the department's highest manpower responses, the fire was brought under control by early evening as tower trucks dumped l water in the burning structure.

A day earlier, just over a mile away, a 4-11 alarm went off at a wooden pallet company in the West Town neighborhood, blanketing the neighborhood in black smoke and keeping firefighters on scene overnight, according to McDonough.

McDonough said fires following additional alarms are common enough that they are not immediately cause for concern. The Chicago Bureau of Fire Investigation was investigating the cause of the fire.