Overview
- The blaze ignited at 12:42 p.m. Monday in a swamp behind the 26000 block of West Oak Avenue near a trailer park.
- Antioch firefighters were joined by crews from Lake Village, Fox Lake, Spring Grove, Grayslake, New Port, Round Lake and Salem Lakes in Wisconsin.
- Fire crews brought the fire under control by mid-afternoon without any injuries reported.
- All trailers were saved, though some suffered only minor exterior damage from the flames.
- The Antioch Fire Department has launched a formal probe into what sparked the swamp fire.