Apartment Units Catch Fire, Requires 'Aggressive Attack': Oswego FD

OSWEGO, IL — An out-building with two attached apartments in the 2200 block of Route 31, in unincorporated Kendall County, caught fire just before 8 a.m. Sunday.

No civilians or firefighters reported injuries from the fire that made the apartments uninhabitable, Oswego fire officials said.

Sunday morning, KenCom Public Safety Dispatch received a call from someone who said smoke detectors went off and a smell of smoke was coming from an apartment. Over the course of the next hour, the alarm was upgraded twice — to a General Alarm and then to a MABAS Box Alarm — as fire companies began an aggressive attack and search to put out the fire, officials said.

The fire was brought under control at 9:09 a.m., but crews and investigators remained on the scene until 12:30 p.m. The cause of the fire remains unknown, and an estimated dollar loss is not yet available, officials said.

Oswego firefighters were aided on-scene by crews from the Aurora, Bristol-Kendall, Naperville, Plainfield and Sugar Grove fire departments, as well as members of the MABAS Division 15 Fire Investigation Team. While firefighters were putting out the flames, the station was covered by crews from the Aurora, Montgomery, Bolingbrook and Aurora Township fire departments.