House Fires In Joliet Are A Constant: No One Was Home At Time Of This Blaze

JOLIET, IL — Joliet Fire Department battalion chief Jim Batusich has issued a press release revealing all the details from Sunday night's house fire.

At 8:30 p.m., the Joliet Fire Department responded to the 5600
block of Major Drive for a structure fire. Company 9 arrived within 3 minutes of the call and found heavy fire coming from the second floor of the structure.

He said crews encountered heavy fire on the second floor and worked quickly to contain and extinguish it before it
spread.

Crews conducted vertical ventilation operations to remove smoke and heat from the structure.

No one was home at the time of the fire. A neighbor saw the
smoke and called 911. There were no injuries to report. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Fire crews from stations 7, 8, 9 and 10 responded to the scene.

Earlier in the afternoon, the Joliet Fire Department responded to a burning house on Herkimer Avenue.