The Chicago Fire Department revealed the cause of a high-rise blaze in the city’s Gold Coast neighborhood, which left a lieutenant dead.
At least one other firefighter was injured during the blaze but was said to be in good condition.
A Chicago Fire Department Lieutenant died Wednesday morning while battling a fire at a high-rise building in the city's Gold Coast neighborhood, the second Chicago firefighter to die in as many days, NBC 5's Evrod Cassimy reports."This has been a tragic week for us," said Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt."Unprecedented."
"It's a very difficult time for the Chicago Fire Department and a very difficult time and day for our city," Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said."It is unprecedented to lose two firefighters in back-to-back days. In different circumstances, but each of them responding to a call to serve and responding to the aid of others. People that they didn't know - because that's what the job demands and that's what they signed up for.
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