ROUND LAKE BEACH, IL — A gas-fueled fire left a Round Lake Beach resident displaced but did not injure any people or animals, including a pig that briefly escaped during the incident.
Firefighters responded at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday to the 1600 block of North Ridgeway Avenue, where they found heavy fire on the exterior of a single-family home and worked to contain the blaze while a damaged gas meter complicated suppression efforts. The resident, a dog and a pig named Charlotte all escaped unharmed, though the pig reportedly ran from the property and had to be caught by its owner, according to the Lake & McHenry County Scanner.
The home was left uninhabitable, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Greater Round Lake Fire Protection District.
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