Hotel / Restaurant, Restaurant Marengo, IL – Overnight fire in restaurant mostly extinguished by sprinkler system February 21, 2015 viking210 Reports of a possible structure fire at Joe’s Place, 19716 E. Grant Highway, came in to the Marengo Fire Protection District at about 12:50 a.m., Capt. John Kimmel said. The small dryer blaze activated one sprinkler head, which had largely extinguished the flames prior to firefighters’ arrival, Kimmel added. “We used pump cans to extinguish the rest, then it was more about ventilating the smoke,” he said. Kimmel continued, saying there were no occupants in the restaurant at the time of the fire and no firefighters were injured during the hour-and-a-half response. “There was significant smoke damage and they’re probably going to lose some product that was in the area,” he added.
