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Firefighters battle a warehouse fire in the 1600 block of East End Avenue in Chicago Heights, Illinois, Tuesday, February 26, 2013. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Firefighters battle a warehouse fire in the 1600 block of East End Avenue in Chicago Heights, Illinois, Tuesday, February 26, 2013. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Ambulances stand by as paramedics check on the status of people in the Golden Towers senior living facility as the smoke from a warehouse fire begins to cause breathing problems on East End Avenue in Chicago Heights, Illinois, Tuesday, February 26, 2013. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Firefighters carry more hose lines to battle a warehouse fire in the 1600 block of East End Avenue in Chicago Heights, Illinois, Tuesday, February 26, 2013. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Firefighters and paramedics check on the status of people in the Golden Towers senior living facility as the smoke from a warehouse fire begins to cause breathing problems on East End Avenue in Chicago Heights, Illinois, Tuesday, February 26, 2013. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Firefighters battle work their way deeper into the warehouse fire in the 1600 block of East End Avenue in Chicago Heights, Illinois, Tuesday, February 26, 2013. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Firefighters battle a warehouse fire in the 1600 block of Union Avenue in Chicago Heights. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Vagrants were responsible for setting a fire that gutted a vacant 144,000-square-foot warehouse Tuesday, according to Chicago Heights Fire Chief Jamie Angell. Angell said his department responded to the fire at 1:37 p.m. in the 1600 block of Union Avenue. About 125 firefighters were called …