A third-floor condominium in Buffalo Grove caught fire Friday night and burned for nearly two hours, forcing about 30 residents to find temporary housing away from their 43-unit building.
There were no injuries, said Buffalo Grove Fire Department spokesman Lt. Larry Andres.
Though the fire was confined to the upstairs unit at 1 Villa Verde Rd., most residents of the complex were temporarily displaced after firefighters broke locks and doors during searches for possible victims in the building’s other units, Andres said.
When the fire department arrived at the three-story building shortly before 11 p.m., Buffalo Grove police officers were evacuating residents, Andres said. The American Red Cross was called in to assist the residents with temporary lodging.
The department was investigating what caused the fire.
Andres said the blaze broke out in the third-floor unit shortly before 11 p.m. Firefighters from Buffalo Grove as well as several neighboring departments responded.
The fire gutted the unit, while other third- and second-floor condominiums suffered minor smoke and water damage.
Andres said Friday’s fire was not the first at the site–built in the 1970s–but it was the “most severe” incident there.
