Mount Prospect police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 8:48 PM Thursday to a report of an attached garage fire in the block of 918 South Lancaster Avenue Mount Prospect, IL. Police and firefighter/paramedics arrived to find smoke showing from an attached garage. Mount Prospect firefighters on arrival reported a confirmed garage fire with smoke showing from a closed garage door.
The fire was quickly brought under control. Firefighters from Elk Grove Village and Arlington Heights assisted Mount Prospect firefighters.
A fire was also reported at the same time at a Porta Pottie at Lincoln Middle School on Lincoln at the west parking lot near the baseball diamond. That fire was also quickly brought under control.
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