The Chicago Tribune is reporting that:
A woman died after getting stuck in an elevator during a high-rise apartment fire that also injured nine others in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood early Sunday morning, according to authorities.
Firefighters were called to the 21-story building on the 3100 block of North Lake Shore Drive about 2 a.m., said Fire Department Chief Joe Roccasalva, a department spokesman.
Firefighters found the woman in an elevator on the 12th floor. The doors were open.
The fire originated in a 12th-floor apartment separate from where the woman lived but hot fumes and smoke poured from the apartment into the hallway and the rest of the building because the unit’s door was open, Roccasalva said.
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ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND NINE OTHERS injured, including two firefighters, in a Chicago high-rise fire. The alarm went out at 2:04 am Central this morning (Sunday) and brought 150 firefighters to the 21-story building.
