Chicago Fire Department firefighter seriously injured in fall during fire on North Hamlin Avenue in Humboldt Park, officials say

CHICAGO (WLS) — A Chicago firefighter was seriously injured in a fall on the city’s Northwest Side on Sunday.

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The firefighter was on the roof of a three-story building in the 800 block of North Hamlin Avenue in Humboldt Park when he fell to the basement, Chicago Fire Department officials said.

The injuries happened while CFD crews were responding to a fire that broke out just after 6 p.m

The injured firefighter was taken to Stroger Hospital with serious fall injuries.

It was really crazy and everyone was just screaming, ‘It’s a fire, it’s a fire,’ but no one picked up their phone to call 911, so that was my first thought.

Fire officials said all residents were able to evacuate safely on their own before crews arrived.

Eight people living in the building were not injured but have been displaced, CFD officials said. The Red Cross stepped in to help them.

The Chicago Fire Department said they were dealing with hoarding conditions on the second floor, so there was a lot of stuff in the fire making the fire worse.

Witness April Rimmer was down the street when the fire started and called 911.

“It was really crazy and everyone was just screaming, ‘it’s a fire, it’s a fire,’ but no one picked up their phone to call 911, so that was my first thought,” Rimmer said. “And I called 911 as quickly as I could. This is sad… so sad.”

ABC7 was also told that a family of migrants from Ecuador lived in the building. They said they had been there for about six months and had lost everything.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known. No further information was available.

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