CHICAGO (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — Firefighters battled an extra-alarm blaze for nearly two hours Monday afternoon after mattresses caught fire in a South Side commercial building, ultimately sending one firefighter to a hospital for exhaustion.
An EMS Plan 1, which sends five ambulances, was called at 2:10 p.m. for the three-alarm fire in a three-story commercial building at 1520 W. Pershing Rd., Fire Media Affairs spokesman Richard Rosado said.
The initial fire was reported at 1:20 p.m., but was soon elevated to a second and then a third alarm, he said. By 3:15 p.m. the fire had been extinguished, Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said.
One firefighter was taken to a hospital in good condition for treatment of exhaustion, Langford said.
Firefighters had been moving burning mattresses out of the building via a loading dock in an effort to extinguish them, Rosado said.
The structure of the building was not damaged, although hundreds of stacked mattresses caught fire and were destroyed. The rest of the three-story building appeared to have been used for storage, Langford said.
The cause of the fire was under investigation Monday afternoon.
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