ATF Boosts Investigation Into Flea Market Fire
Fire investigators are calling in additional members from the Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as authorities try to determine the cause of a massive fire that destroyed a West Side flea market.
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Fire investigators are calling in additional members from the Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as authorities try to determine the cause of a massive fire that destroyed a West Side flea market.
Several people had to jump from the second story of a Little Village two-flat, after a fire started inside, and flames blocked their only exit.
Marilu Gianni, like many vendors who work at Buyers Flea Market, showed up to the 4500 block of West Division Street on the day after the devastating fire, hoping to be able to get into what's left of the building to see if anything inside is salvageable.
The fire department said there were reports of two people trapped in a restroom in the one-story building, which is about two blocks long.
The fire was reported shortly after 1 a.m. in the 2900 block of North Seminary Avenue, according to Chicago Police. It has since been extinguished.
Firefighters responded to a call of a fire at Just Faithful Gospel Church, 14747 Hoyne Ave., at 10:50 p.m., according to Harvey Fire Department Captain Jeff Cook.
Three of the buses were completely engulfed in flames and destroyed, and two others were damaged.
Crews responded at 9:21 p.m. to the blaze in the 1700 block of South 7th Avenue, according to the St. Charles Fire Department.
Firefighters responded at 10:47 p.m. to the 17-story building in the 5400 block of South Cornell Avenue, according to Chicago Fire Department Cmdr. Frank Velez.
Fire crews responded to the blaze on the first floor of a two-story home in the 3200 block of West 61st Street, Chicago Fire Department Cmdr. Frank Velez said.
First District Fire Chief Timothy Sampey said the fire started in a sealed metal trash compactor on the 50th floor in the residential portion of the skyscraper around 9 a.m.
The fire was reported about 8:30 p.m. in a home in the 6000 block of South Troy Street, according to Fire Media Affairs.
Officials say one person was slightly injured in a fire caused by a hoverboard Sunday in the southwest suburbs, reports WBBM's Bernie Tafoya.
Firefighters responded to the blaze about 1:25 a.m. at the warehouse in the 4300 block of South Packers Avenue, according to Fire Media Affairs.
The fire started shortly before 5 a.m. at Greater Emanuel Missionary Baptist Church, in the 5100 block of South Princeton Avenue.
Firefighters responded shortly before 4 a.m. to the blaze at the single-family home in the 7600 block of South Artesian Avenue, according to Fire Media Affairs.
A bakery, a tobacco shop, and a law office were damaged overnight, when a fire broke out at a strip mall in Palos Hills.
Thousands of Metra commuters were facing a second day of delays on Wednesday, as the transit agency works to repair damage from a fire caused by an electrical shortage.
According to the Fire Department, the blaze started when a worker using a cutting torch got too close to a pool of spilled gasoline.
Firefighters responded to the blaze at the stable at 1410 N. Orleans at 1:10 a.m. on Feb. 6, 2015, according to Chicago Police and the FBI.
The woman and her baby were heard crying and coughing as she called 911 Tuesday as the home below them was going up in flames.
Firefighters responded to the blaze shortly before 4 a.m. at the 2 – 1/2 story home in the 10100 block of South State Street, according to Fire Media Affairs.
Crews were called at 1:41 p.m. about the fire in the 900 block of South McLean Boulevard, according to a statement from the Elgin Fire Department. Firefighters arrived to find black smoke coming from the mobile home.
Fire crews from Sauk Village, Steger, Crete, and Dyer, Indiana, rotated shifts as they poured water on the flames in the 22500 block of Jeffrey Avenue for at least two-and-a-half hours, according to Emergency Services Sgt. Arlene Stevens.
Crews responded to a fire alarm and multiple calls of an apartment fire in the 9700 block of Dee Road at 8:30 a.m., Niles Fire Chief Steve Borowski told a reporter at the scene. Firefighters arrived to see flames and smoke coming out the windows, and the blaze was upgraded to an extra alarm.
