Monday, January 9, 2012

Rogers Park: Fire on Chase Ave.

Several people reported a fire at a 6-story building in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood late Monday evening.

At 11:04 p.m., a fire erupted at 1412 West Chase Avenue, on the city's Far North Side, said police.

According to an officer at the scene, the fire started in room 101 on the 1st floor.

Everyone was officially evacuated from the building by 11:15 p.m.

Several CTA warming buses were requested at the scene.

Officers were instructed to place children and the elderly in the back of their police cars until the warming buses arrived.

Citing an unconfirmed police dispatch report, at least one person was taken to St Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois.

Traffic at Chase and Greenview was temporarily blocked while officers and firefighters worked the scene.

Photo: Google Earth

UPDATE: Apparently, two people were injured in the Rogers Park fire. We have just learned that a second ambulance took a patient to Swedish Covenant Hospital.
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2 comments:

  1. MaureenJanuary 10, 2012 at 5:13 AM

    Clowns is clownin in the RP!!!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2012 at 12:04 PM

    All these fires are likely caused by the same reason: Unsupervised mental patients placed in buildings with "normal" people in them. I could bet good money on this.

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