Mike Voss, Daily Journal

Excerpts from the Daily-Journal.com:

A young family of four escaped a fire Thursday morning that destroyed a two-story, multi-family home at 458 West Bourbonnais Street in Kankakee.

The family – consisting of a 23-year-old woman, 21-year-old man, and two children ages 1 and 4 – awoke to smoke detectors about 7:10 a.m. and escaped through a window in their first-story unit. A man living on the second floor left his unit earlier this morning.

“The smoke detectors saved their life,” said Capt. Bryan LaRoche, of the Kankakee Fire Department.

When firefighters arrived, the fire had fully engulfed the first floor and quickly climbed to the second floor. Firefighters from Kankakee and Bradley remained at the scene trying to determine what caused the fire.

People at the scene said the family of four just moved into the apartment about a month ago.

The smoke detector was issued by the city and installed last year.

Mike Voss, Daily Journal

thanks Dennis

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