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Two Chicago firefighters were injured, one of them “very seriously” Wednesday morning while fighting a fire at a skyscraper on the city’s Gold Coast.
Fire officials said the fire started just before 7:30 a.m. on the 27th floor of a building on Block 1200 of North Lake Shore Drive.
One firefighter was injured but is in good condition.
The elevator shut down and the fire was extinguished minutes later, but the hotspot remained, the department said.
Shortly afterward, the fire department tweeted that a second firefighter was injured as smoke remained “heavy” due to the blaze.
At 8:00 a.m., Mayday was called to “unload the firefighters.”
A second injured firefighter was said to be in “extreme danger” and was taken to a local hospital.
About an hour later, fire officials announced that the main fire had been extinguished and that the blaze had subsided in a single unit on the 27th floor that had no sprinklers.
The injuries come just a day after a fire on the city’s south side killed one firefighter and injured two others.
Check back again for more details on this developing story.
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