Extra-alarm fire rages in Illinois Medical District parking garage
The alarm was struck out and the fire was under control by 4:37 p.m. As night fell, so many cars lay in burned out ruins.
Some residents of the Garibaldi Park complex told CBS 2's Jermont Terry about 40 cars are parked in the garage in any given day. Since it was the middle of the day when the fire broke out, they estimated about 20 cars were likely in the garage at the time. "You don't expect to see your home, or anything that belongs to you, up in flames," said Garibaldi Square resident Piper Hawkins-Green.The noise she heard was tires and car engines exploding. By the time she stepped outside, fire crews were already on scene.The Fire Department controlled the fire – keeping it from spreading to any of the 42 townhouses surrounding the garage.
While it took just under 100 firefighters several hours to put out the flames, residents were not happy with their cars being reduced to charred husks.But they're thankful no one was inside the garage when the roof collapsed – and more importantly, when the first car caught fire.
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