Four adults, including a police officer, also were injured in the fire in the 2300 block of North Clybourn Avenue that began in the kitchen of a second-floor apartment about 8:30 p.m., authorities said.
The child was taken to Children’s Memorial Hospital while the four adults, who were described as in “stable” condition, were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, according to the fire department notification.
Reports came in about 8:40 p.m. of residents panicking in a smoky building, police said. Another resident was suffering chest pains, police said.
A 37-year-old Near North District officer arrived on-scene before firefighters, and found residents were leaving the building by the north stairwell, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. While he was banging on doors to alert people to the smoky fire, he came to the apartment of a 34-year-old man who uses a wheelchair.
The officer, a 44-year-old sergeant and several other officers carried the man down the stairs in his wheelchair. While they were carrying him, the man told police his dog was still in the apartment, along with another pet, and two officers returned to rescue the animals.
While officers were on the 6th floor, they also assisted a 41-year-old woman, who had been panicking in her apartment, to safety.
After firefighters arrived on-scene and put out the fire, they located a woman and her young daughter who had been hanging their heads out a window, and one of the firefighters was able to grab the girl and run out of the apartment, with her mother following.
The kitchen fire was confined to a single apartment and firefighters checked to make sure there was no smoke on other floors. Residents were “checked and calmed” by fire crews
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