Residents of the Orion Parkview Apartments in northwest suburban Mount Prospect are picking up the pieces after a raging fire displaced them overnight.
The fire, which broke out Monday evening, has rendered the building a total loss.The blaze began around 6:45 p.m. in the 1800 block of West Palm Drive, affecting all 36 units and leaving 100 residents without a home. Despite the fire alarms activating automatically and all residents evacuating safely, the response for emergency crews was long and arduous.Citizen App video footage captured the flames shooting from the three-story complex.
Conditions rapidly deteriorated, forcing crews to fight the fire from the outside due to the building’s design and the intense heat. Village officials described it as a "perfect storm of operational challenges" that led to an eight-hour effort to extinguish the flames.More than 30 neighboring fire and EMS units were called in to assist, yet the fire was not under control until after 3 a.m. on Tuesday.
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