Damage estimate yet to be announced as the building was evacuated due to a fire caused by a laser printer.
A laser printer was responsible for a fire at an industrial centre
in Lake Zurich on 12 July, with the building requiring evacuation as fire officials managed to extinguish the fire in timely fashion, reports the Lake Zurich Patch.
Most of the fire is reported to have been contained by the sprinkler system and the fire service was able to extinguish the rest within 15 minutes, notes Captain Terry Johnton of the Lake Zurich Fire Rescue. The fire service speculates that something may have jammed inside the printer, causing the fire.
Fire Chief David Wheelock spoke with Fire Engineering, remarking that there were no serious injuries: “[The printer] was just generating a lot of smoke.”
A damage estimate has yet to be issued, but Wheelock stated that the printer unit suffered smoke and heat damage along with fire damage. A printer brand has not yet been speculated on.