CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - An extra-alarm fire on the 10th floor of a 17-story high-rise in the South Shore neighborhood Thursday came just days after a failed inspection.
Residents of the Lakefront Place Condo building at 67th and S. South Shore Drive were not alerted by the alarm system. Some said they noticed smoke coming through vents.
“There was no alarms that went off. There was a young man who was a hero because he went on every floor and knocked on doors to say that the tenth floor was shooting flames out the side of the building,” resident Alisha Roberts-Novak told CBS-2.
There were no injuries, and the fire was put out in about 30 minutes.
CBS-2 reported the building failed an inspection on Monday.
Problems were found with the alarm and notification systems, and repairs were ordered to fix a pump that sends water to the upper floors.
Residents are temporarily not allowed back in the 90-unit building.
Two people died in a fire in the same building in 2013.
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