EXTRA ALARM HOUSE EXPLOSION/HOUSE FIRE, ARSON INVESTIGATION, BURN VICTIM ON SOUTHEAST CIRCLE D, UNINCORPORATED JOLIET

    SUN JUL 14 2013 ~9:21 PM
    EAST JOLIET FPD
    BOX ALARM/HOUSE FIRE
    206 SOUTHEAST CIRCLE DRIVE JOLIET, IL

    MABAS DIVISION 19 FOR BOX NUMBER 500-37NORTH FOR A STRUCTURE FIRE. ENTIRE ROOF BLOWN OFF INTO THE FRONT YARD, AND HOUSE FULLY-INVOLVED.

    ENGINES LOCKPORT, JOLIET, MOKENA
    TENDERS: NORTHWEST HOMER, FRANKFURT, MINOOKA, AND WILMINGTON
    TRUCK: ELWOOD
    RIT: CHANNAHON SQUAD AND CHIEF
    CHIEF FOR OPS: MANHATTON
    CHIEF FOR SAFETY: ELWOOD

    CHANGE OF QUARTERS: TROY AMBULANCE, ORLAND ENGINE, ROMEOVILLE TRUCK, PLAINFIELD TENDER.

    JAMES J. BORG, BURN VICTIM FOUND OUTSIDE THE BURNING HOUSE WITH BURNS ON 70 PERCENT OF HIS BODY. BORG IS THE BOYFRIEND OF MISSING WOMAN, ANNE GAY, 52, AND HAS BEEN A PERSON OF INTEREST IN HER MISSING PERSON CASE, ACCORDING TO DEPUTY CHIEF KENNETH KAUPAS, WILL COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

    A DOG SURVIVED, AND WAS FOUND IN THE RUBBLE IN ITS DOG HOUSE.

    THE FIRE IS INVESTIGATED AS ARSON WITH THE GAS LINE TO THE DRYER APPEARING TO HAVE BEEN TAMPERED, CUT AND OPEN -- WITH THE VALVE WIDE OPEN.

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