Two Injured in High-Rise Fire

Two adults were hospitalized and a family may be left homeless after a fire started in a high-rise apartment building early Tuesday in the Kenwood neighborhood on the South Side.

At 1:46 a.m., a still-and-box alarm and an EMS Plan 1, which automatically sends five ambulances to the scene, were initiated for a fire that started in a second-floor unit of the 11-story building on the 4600 block of South Ellis Avenue, according to Fire Media Affairs spokesman Joe Roccasalva. [Read More...]

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