{"id":494605,"date":"2026-01-05T18:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494605\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:05:14","slug":"fire-rips-through-commercial-building-in-unincorporated-elgin-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494605\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire rips through commercial building in unincorporated Elgin, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire left a building in ruins in unincorporated Elgin northwest of Chicago this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>At 4:15 p.m. Sunday, the Bartlett Fire District was called for the fire in the 31-W-400 block of Spaulding Road. Upon arriving, they found a commercial building in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters issued Level 2 working fire response for more equipment and manpower, as they were met by heavy fire and challenging conditions, the district said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/elgin-fire-2.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"elgin-fire-2.jpg \" height=\"930\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                JLT Photography<\/p>\n<p>The responding firefighters deployed multiple hose lines, while crews set up a water supply from nearby fire hydrants. Fire crews searched the building to ensure no one was inside, and deployed drones to identify hot spots, the district said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/elgin-fire-3.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"elgin-fire-3.jpg \" height=\"930\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                JLT Photography<\/p>\n<p>The fire was under control by about 6:30 p.m. Sunday. No injuries were reported, but the building was severely damaged and left uninhabitable.<\/p>\n<p>The fire district did not specify what the building housed, but published reports said it was a storage building. Photos shared by the district showed an overhead door on the building, and shelves with what appeared to be machine parts inside.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/elgin-fire-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"elgin-fire-1.jpg \" height=\"827\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Bartlett Fire District<\/p>\n<p>Damage estimates were not available Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire left a building in ruins in unincorporated Elgin northwest of Chicago this past weekend. At 4:15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":494606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,14684,5025,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-494605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-elgin","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115843821129679100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}