CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A man has died while three others were hurt following an overnight house fire on the West Side.
Firefighters found the body of Carlos Street, who’d been missing from the home here on Kedvale near Roosevelt all morning, and removed it shortly before 10:30 a.m.
"It just hurts...This morning, I was praying for the best because he was autistic and sometimes might wander off," Street's uncle Joseph Johnson said.
Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said the discovery came after the Building Department brought in heavy machinery to move the burned debris.
“On the first floor, toward the front, we’re told he normally stayed in the rear…maybe he was trying to get out of, we don’t know,” Langford said. “The conditions were such that we could not go in and conduct a search, looking for him.”
The homeowner, a woman in her 70s, was able to get out on her own from the fire that started around 1:15 a.m. The fire department said two police officers tried to rescue the man but were injured when the roof of the front porch collapsed on them, pinning one of them.
One officer has been released from the hospital. The other is in stable condition.
The elderly woman was in critical condition when she was taken to the hospital.
Cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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