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A fire broke out at a multi-unit apartment building on Chicago's West Side.
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A fire broke out at a multi-unit apartment building on Chicago's West Side.
The fire started around 3 p.m. on the balcony on the 34th floor at 545 N. Dearborn St., according to the Fire Department.
"I think she saved the house. She saved me, possibly saved my dog."
Firefighters put out the flames quickly but the blaze smoldered for another three hours.
The fire started shortly after 5 a.m. at a two-flat near Richmond and Walton streets.
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Investigators don't yet know the cause of the blaze.
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One person was hospitalized with injuries and they may have been inside the house when the fire broke out.
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At least two people were injured, one of them critically, in an apartment fire Friday morning in the East Side neighborhood.
"Firefighter Michael Manchester had medical emergency where he went down and he was unconscious."
The fire started around 3 a.m. in a two-story apartment building behind a storefront near Chicago and Lockwood avenues.
The fire started around 8 p.m. in a 3-story apartment building near 76th and Essex.
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Chicago firefighters rescued a woman during a fast-spreading extra-alarm fire Monday night in the Grand Crossing neighborhood.
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