Sunday, October 26, 2008

Fire Near Clarendon And Montrose


We are getting word of a fire near Montrose and Clarendon. Anyone near there who can confirm this? The sounds of sirens are hard to miss. Add any updates in the comments.

Update: When we heard that Maryville on Montrose was the staging area for the press, we had a feeling our intrepid News-Star editor Lorraine Swanson would be hot on the scene. We were right; the News-Star has issued a "Web Extra" about the fire, including photos: Firefighters Contain Fire in Uptown High-Rise: Evacuated residents allowed to return to their units
Update 2: Check out more photos on The Rogers Park Bench

11 comments:

  1. Fire on the 10th floor in the building at 4343 N Clarendon. Thats the high rise at Montrose & Clarendon

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  2. It's a SE corner unit pretty well gutted; firemen still on the scene. It looks like a lot of smoke for several floors above. The living room in the unit directly above sustained some damage but the power's still on.

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  3. i live in the building on the 8th floor. the firemen are starting to file out and wrap things up. from what i understand its higher up than 10. i heard people saying the affected floors are 13-15 in the southeast corner.

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  4. My friend who lives in the building texted me that it started on floor 13

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  5. Wondered what all that noise was. Guess I could have, uh... gone outside or something (I can see that building from mine). Nah, this is more convenient.

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  6. fire was on the 13th floor..four floors below mine on the SE corner. Unit affected totally gutted. The residents of the unit were using sternos and started their drapes on fire. Lots of smoke damage on our floor.

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  7. Sorry about that, I was listening to my scanner and initially they said it was the 10th floor. Scary ordeal in any event.

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  8. Morons shouldn't be using candles or anything with a match.

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  9. Yeah, I live on the 7th floor - I read in the News Star something about lighting fire logs with sterno. Hello, there are no fireplaces in this building, uhm, at least there better not be.....

    Glad the owner wasn't hurt, but some people shouldn't play with matches...

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  10. ah, the joys of a gel fireplace..they're all the craze (blaze). The damn things should be outlawed.

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  11. Curses! You got the more exciting photos! Aaaaarrrrrrrgh!

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