CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Two men were injured, one of them critically, in a fire at an abandoned home on Chicago's South Side early Monday morning.
The fire broke out around 2:30 a.m. near 47th Street and Princeton Avenue in Fuller Park.
When crews arrived, a man outside said there was another man inside who had been calling for help, but he didn’t hear him any longer.
“Crews immediately started a search and found one victim about 10-feet inside the door,” CFD spokesperson Larry Langford said. “He was down, but they got him out.”
The 45-year-old man was taken to the University of Chicago in serious to critical condition after suffering burns and smoke inhalation.
A 68-year-old man was taken to the same hospital for smoke inhalation.
Langford told WBBM the abandoned building was being used by squatters.
“We were told by one of the victims as many as three or four would be in there at a time, but we don't know how many were in there when the fire began,” he said.
Firefighters were unable to do a final search of the building because of the severe deterioration but Langford thought everyone got out.
The cause of the fire is now under investigation.
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