Excerpts from MySuburbanLife.com:
The McHenry Township Fire Protection District was dispatched at 4:45 a.m. Monday (6/12/16) to the 300 block of Kent Road in unincorporated McHenry for a report of fire in the kitchen area of a single-family home and a person trapped in the bedroom, according to Battalion Chief Kevin Sears.
A woman was discovered by a sheriff’s deputy coming through an outside bedroom window andfirst respondersfirefighters inside the structure. Sears said firefighters raised a ladder to the window of the 90-year-old woman’s location and were able to enter the bedroom and locate her. She was transported to the hospital for smoke inhalation and was listed in good conditionFirefighters extinguished the fire within 10 minutes and remained at the scene until about 6:30 a.m. The cause of the fire is believed to be a stove that was left on. There also were no working smoke detectors in the home.
One McHenry County Sheriff’s deputy suffered minor injuries while assisting fire crews on the scene.
