Crime & Safety
NSFD Battles Murray Avenue Duplex Fire for 2 Hours Wednesday Night
No one was injured in a duplex fire at 3602 N. Murray Ave., which sparked at 8:40 p.m. Fire officials don't have a cause of the fire.
The North Shore Fire Department battled an attic fire at 3602 N. Murray Ave. for more than two hours Wednesday night.
Fire Chief Robert Whittaker said firefighters responded at 8:40 p.m. to the duplex.
"The company found fire in the attic that was making pretty rapid travel through what's a large attic," he said.
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All of the duplex occupants were able to escape without injury, and no firefighters were harmed, Whitaker said.
The cause is still unknown, though Whitaker suspects lightning struck the home, sparking the fire. Whitaker said firefighters will spend about an hour Wednesday night doing an overhaul of the duplex and hope to determine a cause then.
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A fire broke out at the same building in the winter of 2001, Whitaker confirmed.
NSFD : a malfunctioning transformer on a telephone pole started sparking and set a detached garage on fire at about 9 p.m. Monday; at 5:17 a.m. on Tuesday, a chemical reaction caused a fire to break out in the basement of a duplex at 4205 N. Wildwood Ave.
(Updated 10:22 p.m. Wednesday)
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