Nine People Displaced After Fire At Chatham Apartment Building
(CBS/STMW) --Investigators ruled out arson as the cause of an extra-alarm fire that displaced nine people early Sunday from a Chatham neighborhood apartment building on the South Side, police said.
Three people received minor injuries in that apartment building fire and the fire department says nine residents were displaced.
The 2-11 alarm fire started just after 2:30 a.m. in the 9000 block of South Cottage Grove. Firefighters had to rescue people from the third floor.
The cause of the fire, which was thought to have started in the back stairwell, was initially deemed "suspicious" because of the way it had spread, officials said.
But the police Bomb and Arson Unit found no evidence of accelarants used to start the fire, police said Sunday afternoon.
Hernandez said a cause had not been determined Sunday afternoon.
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