Apartment kitchen fire causes $50k in damages
A kitchen fire in a Naperville apartment Sunday night caused about $50,000 in damages.
The Naperville Fire Department (NFD) responded to an apartment building on the 1500 block of Country Lakes Drive just after 9:20 p.m. after receiving an automatic fire alarm notification. Fire crews identified a kitchen fire in a first-floor unit of the building.
The fire was deemed under control within 20 minutes of the initial alarm. The apartment was deemed uninhabitable, but the rest of the building was allowed to be reoccupied.
No one was injured during the incident. The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
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