Numerous fire departments were called after live power lines came down onto a house and yard and sparked a fire in Algonquin Wednesday morning, fire officials said.
The Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District responded around 5:59 a.m. Wednesday to the 800 block of Oceola Drive in Algonquin for a report of an outside fire.
Over six 911 calls were received for reports that a yard was on fire and one caller reported a home was on fire.
The incident was upgraded to a Working Fire response to bring additional resources to the scene.
Fire crews arrived on the scene and reported that an electrical service drop wire was on top of a house and on fire. The wires were also on top of a vehicle parked in the driveway.
ComEd was requested to expedite to the scene to address the live power lines that were arcing across the front yards of two homes.
Fire officials said firefighters took a defensive posture until ComEd crews arrived on scene approximately 30 minutes later to de-energize the wires.
Firefighters were then able to extinguish the small fire outside the attached garage of a home, fire officials said.
Fire crews ventilated smoke from the home and fire investigators were called to the scene to conduct an investigation.
Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District Chief John Knebl said there was some damage to the garage and smoke damage inside the home but it remains habitable.
It is unknown how the power lines broke, Knebl said, adding that there is no power in the area following the incident.
The Barrington-Countryside, Carpentersville, Cary, Crystal Lake, Elgin, Fox River Grove, Huntley, Nunda Rural and Rutland-Dundee fire departments assisted during the incident.