Crime & Safety

Cars on Trailer Burn on Cicero Avenue

Smoke billowed over Cicero Avenue behind the D-Lux Budget Motel as firefighters doused a tractor-trailer carrying automobiles that caught fire Friday around 2 p.m.

Alsip firefighters doused burning cars, SUVs and a pickup truck on a the back of a tractor-trailer after several caught fire Friday afternoon, just before 2 p.m. The smoke could be seen over Cicero Avenue for miles as traffic backed up in both directions.

The trailer was in a lot south of the D Lux Budget Motel, in the 12400 block of Cicero Avenue.

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