VIDEO: A large Northwest Side porch fire spread to the roof and a second building on Thursday afternoon, the Chicago Fire Department said. Officials said the building’s back wooden porches were on fire when firefighters arrived.
The flames spreading quickly, but fortunately no one was seriously injured. The Chicago Fire Department said firefighters initially responded to the fire in the Albany Park neighborhood’s 5100-block of North Kimball Avenue around 4 p.m. The flames started at a back wooden porch of the three-story eight-unit building. Smoke billowing from the fire could be seen for miles. The fire then engulfed the building’s porches, and flames started shooting from the roof before spreading to a second building.
