- Author
- Morton, H. S.
- Title
- Carriage Woods Apartment Fires, West Chicago, Illinois, Occurring Monday, June 22, 1970 and Friday, March 5, 1971.
- Coporate
- Navy Department, Wayne, IL
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Keywords
- apartments | building fires
- Abstract
- The Carriage Woods Apartment complex is located in West Chicago, Illinois, a western suburb, near Chicago, Illinois and has experienced two devasting fires in two different apartment buildings during the past 9 months. Before either fire was extinguished the middle section of each building was destroyed and the end sections of the structures suffered severe heat and smoke damage. The apartment complex was completed in the year of 1970, and is considered "economy type construction."