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Multiple fatal fire in Chicago, 3-7-23 (more)

Excerpts from nbcchicago.com:

In the last hours of her life, Summer Day-Stewart’s family held on to one consolation. Plans were made to donate her organs and those of her three young children who died in a house fire last week. Doctors said at least eight life-saving transplants would be performed.

Summer’s husband Walter, a Chicago firefighter, gave his wife CPR, but fire officials said her injuries and those of their children were too severe. 

Ezra, the middle child, had been diagnosed with autism and did not speak. But he always had a smile on his face.

Emory, the youngest, was just a toddler but already loved fire trucks and wanted to be just like his father.

Day-Stewart had close friends across the country, and memorials to the family are in the works in Chicago, Oregon, and California. 

The Chicago firefighters union is collecting donations for the family as well.

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Multiple fatal fire in Chicago, 3-7-23 (more)

Excerpts from abc7chicago.com:

A house fire has claimed the lives of all four family members of Chicago Firefighter Walter Stewart. The fire broke out just after 9 p.m. in the 2500-block of North Rutherford Avenue on Tuesday night. Everyone inside the home suffered severe smoke inhalation.

The blaze claimed the lives of Stewart’s wife, 36-year-old Summer Day-Stewart, who died on Friday, as well as the couple’s 7-year-old son, Ezra Stewart, who died on Wednesday. The two remaining children, a 2-year-old boy and 9-year-old girl — who have been hospitalized since the fire — passed away Friday night.

Ignite the Spirit, a Chicago Fire Department charity, has established a fund to support the family.

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Chicago Fire Department news (more)

Excerpts from abc7chicago.com:

A Chicago firefighter’s wife has died from her injuries days after her son was killed in a Northwest Side fire.

She has been identified as 36-year-old Summer Day-Stewart. Her 7-year-old son, Ezra Stewart, also died after the Montclare house fire on Tuesday night. Ezra died at 6:25 p.m. Wednesday at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.

Two other children were critically injured in the fire, which broke out just after 9 p.m. in the 2500-block of North Rutherford Avenue. Everyone inside the home suffered severe smoke inhalation.

A deceased pet was also seen being removed from the home Wednesday morning.

Chicago fire officials passed out smoke alarms and fire prevention materials near where the fire occurred, as they always do after a deadly blaze. It’s a reminder to check devices and change batteries in the detectors, especially as we approach the time change weekend.

The home involved in the fire did have detectors.

Ignite the Spirit, a Chicago Fire Department charity, has established a fund to support the family.

Fire inspectors are working on determining the cause of the fire. Investigators wouldn’t say whether or not the fire was intentional as the cause remains under investigation.

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Chicago Fire Department news (more)

Excerpts from nbcchicago.com:

A young boy who suffered smoke inhalation after the Montclare home he was in caught fire has died.

Ezra Stewart, 7, had been listed in critical condition after police and firefighters responded to a house fire at 2550 N. Rutherford Ave on Tuesday. The home belongs to a member of the Chicago Fire Department, who was on duty at the time of the blaze.

The firefighter’s wife, 34, and two other young children, ages 7 and 2, also suffered smoke inhalation, and they remain hospitalized in critical condition.

The firefighter, who heard the call come in through dispatch, was taken to the scene by a battalion chief and worked to perform life-saving measures on his family before they were taken to the hospital.

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Chicago Fire Department news

Excerpts from nbcchicago.com:

Chicago firefighters and police responded to a house fire at approximately 9:10 p.m. Tuesday at 2550 N. Rutherford, in Chicago’s Montclare neighborhood, and the home belongs to a member of the Chicago Fire Department.

A woman, 34, and three young children — a boy, 7, and two girls, ages 7 and 2, all suffered smoke inhalation as a result of the blaze and were transported to various hospitals in critical condition.

The cause of the blaze is currently being investigated by The Chicago Fire Department’s Office of Fire Investigation.

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Chicago Fire Department news

Excerpts from abc7chicago.com:

Chicago firefighters responded a little after 7 p.m. Wednesday night to a two-flat in the 1700-block of Superior Street, and said they had to twice upgrade their response. Parts of the building, including a portion of the roof  collapsed. 

As of 9:30 p.m. firefighters continued to pour water on the home from above, but the partial collapse was keeping some of the hot spots shielded from their streams.

A woman in her early 80s was taken from a bottom floor residence to Ascension St. Mary Hospital in serious but stable condition. No one else at the scene needed treatment or evacuation.

 

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Still and Box Alarm fire in Chicago, 12-22-21

From Steve Redick:

67 and Normal yesterday (12/22/21)
fire scene win Chicago

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Working fire in Chicago, 5-29-21 (part 3)

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Firefighters on roof engulfed in smoke

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Working fire in Chicago, 5-29-21 (part 2)

More from the Working fire in Chicago, 5-29-21

smoke billows from house on fire

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Working fire in Chicago, 5-29-21 (part 1)

This from Matthew Sosnowski:

STILL + W/F = BOX ALARM @ 11303 SOUTH ON NORMAL
DATELINE CITY OF CHICAGO ILLINOIS DATE SATURDAY 5-29-2021 ADDRESS 11303 SOUTH ON NORMAL CROSS STREETS ARE 501 BLOCK OF WEST ON 113TH STREET AND 459 BLOCK WEST ON 114TH STREET OF STILL ALARM + W/F RESPONSE + BOX ALARM STILL ALARM @ 14:31 HOURS B/O/O/ E.F.A.O. {ENGLEWOOD FIRE ALARM OFFICE} STILL ALARM COMPANIES RESPONDING ENGINES 62/115 TRUCK {LADDER} 27 TOWER LADDER 24 BATTALION CHIEF 22 UPGRADED TO A WORKING FIRE RESPONSE @ 14:34 HOURS B/O/O E.F.A.O. W/F RESPONSE COMPANIES RESPONDING SQUAD 5/5A EMS 459 BATT CHIEF 21 AMBULANCE 60 TRUCK {LADDER} 62 BOX ALARM @ 14:45 HOURS B/O/O BATT 22 BOX ALARM COMPANIES RESPONDING ENGINES 75/93 S.O.C. 515 OFI 468 TRUCK {LADDER} 40 EMS 468 BATT 19/23
house fire before fire department arrival

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