Firefighters Battle Far South Side Blaze
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CHICAGO (CBS) -- Firefighters responded Friday morning to a blaze at a Hegewisch neighborhood building on the Far South Side.
About 4:15 a.m., crews had two handlines going to fighting the fire at the 1.5-story building in the 13500 block of South Buffalo, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
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Due to the volume of the fire, crews had to attack the fire from the building's exterior rather than from inside, according to the fire department.
As of about 4:50 a.m., no one had been injured, the fire department said.
The fire's cause and origin was unknown.
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