Emergency crews are on the scene after a catering business caught fireplace late Thursday close to Halfway Worldwide Airport, authorities can affirm.
In response to Chicago Hearth officers, a nonetheless and field alarm fireplace was reported at 11:35 p.m. Thursday within the 6300 block of South Central Avenue. Crews labored in a single day and into early Friday morning, officers say.
Photographs and video from the scene present firefighters on ladders utilizing hoses to place out flames in what seems to be a burned and blackened constructing.
In response to officers, there are not any stories of accidents or displacements.
The catering enterprise at that tackle, Georgis Catering, has been in enterprise for greater than 50 years and offers meals for dozens of government companies like giant companies and firms, plane and yachts, and extra, its web site says.
A press release from the Meals on Wheels Basis of Northern Illinois, which serves meals to 7,000 older adults and adults with disabilities within the Chicago space, confirms that they accomplice with Georgis for catering, and that their companies can be impacted because of the blaze.
“We’re devastated on the loss that our catering accomplice, George “Buz” Georgis at Georgis Catering has endured,” an announcement from the corporate reads.
“At our eight websites in Cook dinner County in Brookfield, Berwyn, Hometown, South Chicago Heights, Phoenix, Lemont Township, and at one among our stand-alone cafés in Dolton, our purchasers won’t obtain scorching meals in the present day,” the assertion says. “Whereas they are going to be supplied with emergency shelf secure meals, we’re looking for a brand new caterer and making an attempt to attach with native eating places as shortly as we are able to.”
“We have now been in contact with Buz and we hope that the group can assist him as he has supported them previously,” the assertion continued.
NBC 5 has reached out to Georgi’s Catering for remark however has not heard again.
This story can be up to date as extra info turns into accessible.
