Calumet City Mayor Thaddeus Jones has declared a citywide state of emergency after a devastating fire ripped through a condo building this week and left 150 families displaced.
around 7 p.m. Monday on the second floor of the 312-unit condo complex at 200 Park Ave. in Calumet City, in the Park of River Oaks Condo Association. Winds drove the flames all the way to the seventh floor.
An 85-year-old woman identified as Wilhelmina Williamson died in the fire. She lived on the seventh floor and was killed as the wind shot flames upward.Mayor Jones pulled together his administrative team and several Calumet City aldermen at the stie of the fire as soon as the fire department had been called.
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