Fire heavily damages Fox River Grove office building
Firefighters from more than a dozen Northwest suburban departments battled a blaze early Sunday morning that heavily damaged a Fox River Grove office building.
No injuries were reported in the fire, the cause of which remains under investigation. However, officials noted that the blaze broke out as heavy thunderstorms passed through the area.
According to the Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District, firefighters were dispatched to the building in the 400 block of Fox Glen at 12:40 a.m. after police officers who’d initially responded to a burglary alarm spotted flames coming out of the roof.
Crews initially performed a primary search of the one-story building and attempted a combination interior and exterior fire attack, but their efforts were hampered by the storms, officials said.
The fire spread quickly and unchecked through inaccessible void spaces within the roof structure while firefighters battled the blaze with multiple streams of water from above, inside and outside the structure, according to the fire district. Drone technology also was used to fire attack plan.
The fire was declared under control at 3:25 a.m.
Crews were able to contain the fire to the unit of the office building where it started, but the roof was significantly damaged and the rest of the structure sustained water damage, officials said.
In addition to Barrington Countryside, firefighters from departments in Hoffman Estates, Wauconda, Long Grove, Buffalo Grove, Lake Zurich, Barrington, Cary, Fox River Grove, Palatine, Schaumburg, Streamwood, Huntley, Hanover Township, Mount Prospect, Wheeling, Deerfield and Inverness responded.