MORGAN PARK — A fire in a third-floor apartment at 2259 W. 111th St. in Morgan Park was quickly extinguished some time after midnight Tuesday morning, according to neighbors and the building superintendent.
The superintendent said nobody was injured in the fire, and the damage was largely contained to the apartment were the fire occurred. The resident of the apartment is staying with friends while the damage is being repaired, he said.
"One of the tenants called right away, and the fire department was on top of it," he said, adding that the second-floor unit below where the fire occurred experienced some minor water damage to the bedroom ceiling.
A fire in a third-floor apartment at 2259 W. 111th St. in Morgan Park was quickly extinguished around midnight Tuesday, according to neighbors and the building's superintendent.[DNAinfo/Howard A. Ludwig]
A spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department said first call for the apartment fire came in at 11:55 p.m. Monday. Firefighters searched the unit, and no hospital transportation was needed.
Barry Barney of Morgan Park lives in a second floor apartment in the building just west of where the fire occurred. He was awoken around midnight by the sound of fire trucks and sirens.
He saw no flames shooting out of the building, and he estimated the fire was extinguished in less than an hour. That's when he went back to bed.
The glass door used in the garden entrance to an apartment building at 2259 W. 111th St. in Morgan Park was broken by firefighters attempting to reach a small fire in a third-floor unit, according to a repair crew on the scene. [DNAinfo/Howard A. Ludwig]
