For the second straight day, Chicago firefighters had to battle an extra-alarm fire on the city’s West Side as a heat wave lingered over the city and much of the Midwest.
The latest fire occurred 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 post on social media.
No injuries were reported inside the two-story brick structure with a “For Sale” sign posted outside.
Despite the alarm rising to a 4-11, triggering one of the highest department responses for manpower, the blaze was controlled by the early evening as tower trucks poured water into the flaming structure.
One day earlier slightly over a mile away, a 4-11 alarm erupted at a wooden pallet company in the city’s West Town neighborhood, covering the neighborhood in dark smoke.
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