Extra-alarm fire destroys Lower West Side Chicago apartment house, spreads to neighboring homes

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Extra-alarm fire destroys Lower West Side Chicago apartment house, spreads to neighboring homes
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Extra-alarm fire destroys Lower West Side Chicago apartment house

CHICAGO -- A fireball shot into the sky Thursday evening as an apartment house went up in flames in Pilsen .Firefighters were called to the scene at 8:15 p.m., and found flames raging at the two-and-a-half-story, multi-family frame house at 1355 W. 16th St., Chicago Fire Department Assistant 1st District Chief Jim McDonough said The building was vacant and was being remodeled at the time, he said.

Both of those buildings were occupied, and everyone was evacuated.Cellphone video showed just how intense the flames were – as a column of fire engulfed the whole structure at 1355 W. 16th St. Video also showed flames on the roof of the neighboring building to the west at 1353 W. 16th St.Neighbor Isabela Vielma-Reyes was frantic that the fire was going to spread to her house.

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