One rescued, one escapes fire near Lake in the Hills

LAKE IN THE HILLS -- A man was rescued from a roof and a boy escaped through the door of a burning farmhouse in northwest suburban Lake in the Hills on Friday morning.

The fire started about 9:40 a.m. in the basement of a two-story farmhouse at 9320 Virginia St., according to Lake in the Hills/Algonquin Fire Protection District firefighter Kim Matz. The fire was controlled by 9:57 a.m. and the last units left the scene about 12:10 p.m.

Two residents were home at the time -- a 12-year-old boy who escaped by coming out the front door, and an adult male who went out his second-story bedroom window and onto a porch roof, where crews threw a ladder to rescue him, Matz said.

The man suffered a slight ankle injury but was not hospitalized, and the boy was not hurt, according to Matz, who said foul play is not suspected in the blaze.