Displacements In South Shore Fire

Several residents will be displaced after a fire damaged a South Shore apartment building early Thursday on the South Side, police said.

The fire started about 2:45 a.m. in one unit of a three-story, multi-unit apartment building at 7039 S. East End Ave., according to a Grand Crossing District police captain.

A tenant said he was frying chicken and went to take a shower. When he returned, the stove area was engulfed in flames. The resident extinguished the fire in his unit, but the blaze may have spread through the walls to neighboring units, the captain said.

Investigators have not yet determined a cause, but are trying to find out if the blaze was electrical in nature because the fire that started on the stove was contained to that unit, according to the captain.

Nobody was injured, but several people will be displaced, according to the captain who said though the fire was extinguished about 3:30 a.m., crews remained on the scene at 3:45 a.m.