No injuries reported in Batavia fire Tuesday
Posted February 14, 2018 12:00 am
No one was injured in a fire in a basement on the 1300 block of Surrey Road in Batavia Tuesday, authorities said.
Firefighters were called to a single-family residence at 9:22 p.m., and discovered heavy smoke and a fire in the basement, Batavia Fire Department Battalion Chief Mark Cwinksi said.
Residents had evacuated the home, he said.
A special alarm was called to bring additional manpower to the scene, he said, and the fire was extinguished a short time later. Firefighters from Geneva, North Aurora, Fermilab, St. Charles, West Chicago and Elburn assisted.
The cause of the blaze remains under investigation. The house was deemed uninhabitable.
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