One person suffers ‘serious burns’ in Elk Grove Village industrial fire

A worker at a tractor-trailer repair shop in Elk Grove Village suffered “serious burns” in a fire that also damaged or destroyed multiple vehicles early Tuesday.

Elk Grove Village fire officials said they were called to the shop near the intersection of United Lane and Pan Am Boulevard just before 7 a.m.

A fire that had engulfed a single semi-truck ultimately spread to another semi-truck, four trailers and eight personal vehicles nearby, fire officials said. The adjacent building suffered minor heat damage, but remained inhabitable.

The injured worker was transported to Loyola Medical Center in Maywood. The worker’s condition is unknown.

It took more than an hour to extinguish the blaze and more than 30 firefighters were on scene to battle it.

Overheard power lines were damaged by the fire and caused a power outage to the area as a result, fire officials said.

State and local environmental agencies were called to the scene to monitor for any contamination in the area from fire suppression materials as well.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.