This from Eric Haak:
Here are a few images taken in Chicago last weekend. This was a vacant home in the 19th Battalion. There was fire in the basement, first floor, and attic and most of the initial attack was done defensively. Eventually companies went interior and mopped up.
Eric Haak photo
Eric Haak photo
Eric Haak photo
Eric Haak photo
Eric Haak photo
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From Steve Redick:
67 and Normal yesterday (12/22/21)
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