A woman died after her unattended cooking caught fire Tuesday morning in her Lincoln Park apartment, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
Smoke alarms went off in the hallway outside her third-story studio apartment, at 2322 N. Commonwealth Ave., but there was no working alarm in her unit that could’ve alerted her that smoke was filing her apartment, CFD spokesman Larry Langford said.
Firefighters responded to a blaze around 6:50 a.m. and quickly found the woman, in her mid-50s, and started CPR, Langford said. Paramedics brought her to Saint Joseph Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The fire was contained to the studio apartment and there was no word of other displacements, Langford said. There was a lot of smoke but little fire, and the blaze was extinguished quickly, he said.
A preliminary investigation found that the cause of the fire was “unattended cooking,” Langford said.
Autopsy results have not been released.
This story has been updated.
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