Lamp Apparently Sparks Fire That Destroyed Home

Lamp Apparently Sparks Fire That Destroyed Home

(STNG) LAKE IN THE HILLS, Ill. A family was displaced early Sunday morning after a fire tore through an attached garage at their northwest suburban home overnight.

Nobody was injured in the fire, which broke out just after midnight in an attached two-car garage at 505 Seminole Trail in Lake in the Hills, according to Algonquin Fire Battalion Chief Joe Teson.

A lamp that was knocked over appears to have started the fire, Teson said.

“The fire completely destroyed the garage and a car parked out front,” Teson said.

The fire did not damage the main house. But the family is displaced because of the magnitude of the garage blaze during the night, Teson said.

The residents were staying with relatives in the meantime, he said.
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This is exactly the kind of fire I think my SmokeShutoff Power Strip(TM) can prevent. I bet the power strip would have cut off and sounded a smoke alarm before the lamp could get the fire to full ignition.