Chicago firefighters battled a three-alarm fire in a commercial building in the city’s Albany Park neighborhood that gutted the structure.
Crews were called to a local furniture store for a reported fire Tuesday afternoon. The first-arriving company reported a working fire and started an offensive attack.
Customers were inside the building when the fire started in the second-level storage area and everyone inside quickly got out once they realized what was happening, fire department spokesman Larry Langford told Block Club Chicago.
Command noted the structure contained a bowstring truss roof and pull crews from the structure to a defensive position. Not long after command pulled crews, a collapse occurred dropping in the roof and pushing the front wall into the street.
This was one of four fires in the Albany Park neighborhood according to Block Club Chicago. Firefighters battled a massive fire that started at an apartment building Feb. 21 that tore through the neighboring Twisted Hippo brewpub and Ultimate Ninjas Gym, destroying both buildings. The two others included a vacant building and a church.
