Two-alarm fire leads to building collapse on West Side

A building on the city's West Side collapsed after it went up in flames Wednesday night. 

The incident happened around 8:30 p.m. in the 1300 block of West 16th Street at Loomis. 

The two-and-a-half-story building that caught fire has collapsed, but no injuries were reported. Everyone was able to escape the building safely.

Firefighters upgraded the fire to a second-alarm and utilized ladder trucks to help extinguish the flames.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation. We'll bring more updates to this story as they become available. 

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