No injuries in Elgin apartment fire

A fire Monday morning displaced tenants of one unit at Hunter's Ridge Apartment complex in Elgin, but nobody was injured, fire officials said.

Firefighters were called at 9:14 a.m. to the complex on the 1000 block of Todd Farm Drive for a report of an air conditioner on fire in the wall of a second floor apartment, Elgin fire officials said in a news release.

Apartment management workers, who were alerted to the fire by another tenant, had knocked on the doors of other units in the building to alert residents to evacuate.

Firefighters were unsure if the unit on fire was occupied and entered it to discover high heat, fire and smoke throughout. No one was home, fire officials said.

Damage was estimated at about $25,000 to the home and contents. That unit was deemed uninhabitable, but the rest of the apartments were able to be occupied, Elgin Fire Chief David Schmidt said.

"There was a little bit of water damage to the unit below," Schmidt said. "But it was vacant below, so we only marked the one uninhabitable."