CRASH WITH INJURIES AND A VEHICLE FIRE AT NORTHWEST HIGHWAY AND PALATINE RD PALATINE

8:41 PM ... Palatine firefighters and paramedics working at the scene of a crash with injuries and a vehicle fire at Northwest Highway and Palatine Road Palatine. Report of a crash involving a blue car and a white sedan. Report that the blue car has an engine compartment fire with a person still in the vehicle. Person may have escaped vehicle fire before police and firefighters arrived. Police first on arrival report no one is in the vehicle.

Police on arrival report one vehicle on fire.

Second ambulance assigned to assess a second patient.

First patient transported conscious to Northwest Community Hospital. Second patient refused medical transport.