Three homes were severely damaged in extra-alarm blaze Friday afternoon in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side.
The fire started after 2 p.m. in a two-flat in the 4900 block of South Princeton Avenue, and Chicago Fire Department officials said the fire spread to two adjacent buildings.
The fire was elevated to a 2-11 alarm to bring in extra resources to contain the blaze. A 2-11 alarm sends at least eight engines, four trucks, two tower ladders, five battalion chiefs, a district chief, a deputy district chief, a squad company, an ambulance and the Command Van to the scene, with around 100 firefighters responding.
Firefighters appeared to have largely extinguished the fire by around 2:50 p.m., although the fire had destroyed most of the roof of one building, and severely damaged two others…