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1 taken to hospital after car fire in Near North Side parking garage

Crews extinguished a car fire Feb. 24, 2020, in a parking garage at 10 E. Ontario St. | Chicago Fire Department

A woman was taken to a hospital Monday after firefighters extinguished a car fire inside a Near North Side parking garage.

Crews responded shortly after 11 a.m. to a car fire in a parking garage at 10 E. Ontario St., according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Merritt.

Fire in River North at Ontario and Rush. @WBBMNewsradio pic.twitter.com/1niDlzEsKU

— Brandon Ison (@MrBrandonIson) February 24, 2020

The fire was quickly extinguished and the cause remains unclear, he said.

Video posted to social media showed large plumes of black smoke billowing from the garage.

A woman was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition for observation, Merritt said. He couldn’t specify her type of injury.

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