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An early morning fire Saturday in a building at the Meadowdale Apartments in Carpentersville displaced 23 families and caused about $2 million in damage, village officials said.

One person was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation as a result of the blaze, believed to have started sometime before 12:30 a.m. on the first floor of the building at 104 Meadowdale Court, according to a news release from the Carpentersville Fire Department.

“This is one of the biggest fires we have had in town, that’s for sure,” said Village President John Skillman, a former village fire chief who went out to the scene about 1 a.m. “It’s devastating but fortunately it appears that no one was seriously injured.”

Fire departments from across Kane and McHenry cou

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