Fire Damages Town Home, 2 Cars In Warrenville: Fire Department

WARRENVILLE, IL — A Warrenville family was unable to return to their town home after a fire broke out Friday afternoon.

Warrenville Fire Protection District received a call just before 1:45 p.m. to report a blaze in a driveway the 29W400 block of Crabtree Lane that had extended to a home. Firefighters got to the scene minutes later, and found flames coming from a two-story multi-family residence.

Fire crews used a hose to put out flames on the outside of the building and entered the affected town home to continue to fight the blaze. Warrenville police and firefighters, in addition to crews from neighboring fire departments, helped make sure residents who live in the town home and adjacent town home had safely escaped the fire.

Firefighters put out the blaze within 15 minutes, but the town home was deemed uninhabitable. Two cars that had been parked in the home's driveway had been moved, but were damaged by radiant heat from the fire.

Warrenville Fire Protection District was assisted at the scene of the blaze by West Chicago Fire Protection District, Naperville Fire Department, Wheaton Fire Department, Winfield Fire Protection District, Lisle-Woodridge Fire Protection District, Fermi-Lab Fire Department, Warrenville Police Department, Warrenville Building Department, Com-Ed, and NICOR.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.