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No one hurt in Sycamore house fire Friday evening

Sycamore Fire Department headquarters sign Sycamore, IL on Thursday, May 13, 2021.

No one was hurt in a Sycamore house fire Friday night, Sycamore Deputy Fire Chief Jim Ward said.

Ward said the fire broke out Friday evening inside the attached garage of a single-story home located at 319 Parkside Drive in Sycamore. The fire caused an estimated $250,000 to the home, and $100,000 in damage to the contents and two vehicles near the garage, according to a news release from the Sycamore Fire Department.

A news release from the Sycamore Fire Department said the cause currently is undetermined pending further investigation, “but appears to be accidental in nature and possibly related to welding done in [the] garage previously in the day.”

“It looks like there, I would call it very heavy damage to the house,” Ward said. “I would say I’m not the expert on whether the house will be repaired or knocked down.”

A Sycamore man, who was not injured, was the sole resident of the home.

“He was the one who found the fire in the garage, and he is out safe and did not report any injuries,” Ward said.

The fire was not contained to where it was found, however. Ward said the blaze damaged other parts of the home.

“It definitely started in the garage,” Ward said. “We’re 99 percent sure of that. It got ... it did get into the house, into the kitchen, and into the attic.”

“[Firefighters are] just making sure things don’t rekindle because, yeah, there was a lot of fire in the garage and in the attic and in the kitchen. Typically, what we do is we just stay on scene for a while to make sure we don’t have any hot spots flare up.”

Camden Lazenby

Camden Lazenby

Camden Lazenby covers DeKalb County news for the Daily Chronicle.