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The East Joliet Fire Department put out a few tent fires under a Cass Street bridge on Friday night.
“There were a couple of tents on fire with evacuation,” Deputy Fire Chief Matt Grohar said.
People apparently occupied the tents, which caught on fire at about 10:30 p.m.
The bridge crosses railroad tracks near Cass and Page Avenue in an unincorporated area of Joliet Township that borders the Joliet city limits.
On Saturday afternoon, there was a tent standing next to the charred ground where the fire occurred and another tent nearby. There were also garbage bags near the fire site with what appeared to be personal belongings. But it did not appear that anyone was inside the remaining tents at the time.