Jan 10, 2025
A Chicago Fire Department firefighter was injured in a Gage Park warehouse blaze Friday morning on the Southwest Side.Firefighters responded to the fire around 7:10 a.m. at 5653 S. Kedzie Ave. and it was extinguished by 8:35 a.m., according to the fire department in a post on X, formally known as Twitter. After crews burst into the 2-story brick warehouse by breaching the front door, they began extinguishing its contents: paper products and building supplies, according to fire department spokesman Larry Langford.The firefighter was inside “working that fire” and battling flames when he was hurt. It wasn’t clear immediately how he was injured, Langford said, adding he wasn’t burned or trapped.The firefighter remains at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where hospital where his condition, initially described as "critical," had “stabilized,” said Langford who added: “There is no threat to his life.”The firefighter, who was "conscious and alert” when paramedics began treating him, was the only person injured in the fire, which did not spread, and the building remains intact. “You wouldn’t even know a fire happened there if you drove by,” Langford said.It wasn’t immediately known if anyone was inside at the time the fire broke out and its cause and origin of the fire were under investigation.
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