Chicago firefighters were battling a two-alarm fire in the city’s Roseland neighborhood as an abandoned church went up in flames.
Firefighters were called Monday night to the church in the 10600 block of South Perry, and dozens of crews were eventually called to the scene to contain the blaze.
A neighbor told NBC Chicago the abandoned church has been sitting vacant for years.
“I was parking in the garage I saw a lot of smoke then I see on engine coming in and then after the smoke came long fire streams,” Jonathan Alvarez said.
There were no injuries reported in the fire, with Alvarez describing the chaotic scene that unfolded just before 7 p.m. Monday.
“My daughter was telling me that I smell smoke and I was confused and I came outside and I saw smoke everywhere and I came out to the middle of the street and sure enough it was on fire,” he said.
Another neighbor expressed concern over embers from the blaze that were floating through the air.
“It was pretty worrying because actually there were some ashes falling towards my house and it actually caught a bit of a fire,” he said.
The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
