Crews worked overnight after a car crash severed a gas line and started a Bloomindale fire at a Chase bank on East Lake Street.
Crews worked into Saturday morning after a car crash severed a gas line and started a large fire at a bank in northwest suburban Bloomingdale Friday evening.Bloomingdale Director of Public Safety Frank Giammarese said a car using the drive-through services appeared to inadvertently hit the gas pedal instead of the brake, and crashed into the Chase Bank at 136 East Lake Road."She had used the drive through. Sounds like she was starting to exit.
"The odds of this happening, just right from the ATM, right into the gas line, is pretty extraordinary," said Eric Kowalik, who witnessed the aftermath of the crash.No one was injured, including the driver and the bank's customers and employees, Giammarese said. Fire crews doused the fire with water to prevent it from spreading further. They will fully extinguish the fire once the gas is turned off.As a result of the crash and fire, traffic was shut down on eastbound Lake Street from Bloomindale Road.
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