Fire Crews Quell Glenview Garage Fire Before It Spreads

GLENVIEW, IL — Fire crews contained an early morning garage fire on Halloween in Glenview without any injuries to residents or firefighters, according to village staff.

The Glenview Fire Department received a call of a burning garage around 3:49 a.m. Thursday. When they arrived, they found an attached garage engulfed in flames that threatened to spread to the rest of the home, according to Lynne Stiefel, village communications director.

A single resident met arriving crews outside and said they were home alone, which firefighters were able to confirm. After extinguishing the blaze, fire crews started leaving the scene around 5 a.m. and the last engine cleared the location at 7 a.m., according to Stiefel.

Three fire engines, a truck, two ambulances and a battalion car reported to the scene from the Glenview Fire Department, according to Stiefel. Although the fire was mostly kept to the garage, the home was made temporarily uninhabitable due to water and smoke damage, Stiefel said.