A three-year-old girl has died after a fire in the Bronzeville neighborhood early Saturday.
A three-year-old girl has died during a fire in the Bronzeville neighborhood early Saturday.
Emergency calls to 911 started coming in at 1:28 a.m. to a six-unit brick building at 606 E. 43rd St. and the first fire engine got there four minutes later, said Chicago Fire Dept. spokesman Larry Langford.Firefighters burst into a second-floor apartment to begin their attack while heavy flames blew out its back door as smoke was billowing out its front.“In their primary search they found a 3-year-old girl in a front room,” Langford said.
The toddler was in cardiac arrest so they immediately placed her on a gurney and began life support and CPR while also getting her to an ambulance that was half a block away. “They were literally running down the street with the gurney,” Langford said. “They rushed her to Comer and she was pronounced dead within minutes.”Her brother, a 13-year-old, was outside when his mom, who was at work at the time of the fire, rushed home.The office of fire investigation got on the scene and said the blaze began in the kitchen and it was “incendiary,” in nature -- not meaning it was suspicious but meaning a human was involved with its ignition.
There were smoke detectors present in the building and its first floor was unoccupied. No one else was hurt.
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