No injuries reported in extra-alarm blaze in Lake View

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Firefighters battled a blaze Thursday afternoon in Lake View. | Chicago Fire Department

No one was injured in an extra-alarm blaze Thursday afternoon in the Lake View neighborhood on the North Side.

The fire was reported in a four-story apartment building at 2025 W. Belmont and was upgraded to an extra alarm at 4:20 p.m., according to Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford. The building has a vacant storefront on the first floor with “light-weight construction.”

No injuries were reported in the blaze, fire officials said.

“It’s not a huge fire, just a lot of smoke in a huge building,” Langford said.

The blaze was struck out at 4:49 p.m., fire officials said.

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