Explosions could be heard as a large plume of dark smoke billowed from a fire in a west suburban building that houses a pallet company on Saturday afternoon, drawing a large emergency response.
Around 2:30 p.m., reports of smoke rising from a fire in a building near the 1300 block of South 1st Avenue in Maywood surfaced on social media.
Maywood Mayor Nathaniel George Booker said authorities were responding to a fire at a pallet company where crates and rubber are stored…