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No one injured, two people displaced after Schaumburg fire

Posted November 30, 2017 12:00 am

Doug T. Graham

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Firefighters clear debris from the second floor of a Schaumburg townhouse that caught fire Thursday afternoon. No injuries were reported. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com

A Schaumburg townhouse caught fire Thursday afternoon, leaving two people temporarily without a place to live.

No one was injured in the blaze and no one needed to be rescued, according to John Steele, a Schaumburg Fire Department shift commander.

Steele said the department received a call that there was a fire in the garage of the townhouse at 632 Whalom Lane at 4:02 p.m., and the fire crews were on the scene four minutes later. Firefighters met heavy fire that was coming up from the garage and extending to the second floor.

"They quickly got water onto the fire, stopped its forward progress, knocked it down," Steele said. "(The) companies got inside, did their searches, extinguished the fire."

Steele said there was no damage estimate yet.

•Daily Herald photographer Mark Welsh contributed to this report.

A firefighter tosses debris from the second floor of a Schaumburg townhouse after Thursday's fire. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com

Schaumburg Fire Department shift Cmdr. John Steele observes the damage that a fire did Thursdya at 623 Whalom Lane. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com

This car may have been the source of the fire Thursday afternoon at 632 Whalom Lane in Schaumburg. The Schaumburg Fire Department is still investigating. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com

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