Fire on ninth floor of apartment prompts evacuation, Chicago IL
Fire & ArsonA fire broke out on the ninth floor of an apartment building near Drexel Avenue. The building is being evacuated. Emergency teams including SWAT and fire units are responding. Two children were seen standing in a window, possibly at risk from the fire.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 07
02:51
Transcript:
00:00
Yeah, it's front of fire on the night floor.
00:02
They're evacuating the building now.
00:03
One thing, you got swat.
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Company five, truck 15,
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NJ 45, NJ 45,
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Truck 60, Quad,
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five, All right, Tarsman, All right, Tires Mental.
00:11
210 or 220 or second district desk?
00:18
210, 220 or second district desk, 4A.
00:20
Notify.
00:21
All the tools have a bonafide fire.
00:23
Ninth floor, near Drexel, putting in the backlog at 1350.
00:27
No, no, no.
00:28
I hear that one. 84.
00:29
284. 284. 24th, Indiana, I have a person down.
00:31
He's not responsive.
00:32
I see him breathing, but you can't answer any questions.
00:34
A bunch of people are saying he's just a police, but he's not answering anything for me.
00:38
Can you go with 124, East 47 Street?
00:43
154, East 47 for a person not responding, all right.
00:47
24. So, 24. Yeah,
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the job is a duke from that fire.
00:50
The details state, the apartment's on fire.
00:52
Somewhere in there and then off.
00:54
It's on apartment, one feet.
00:56
They gave the address of near Drexel, so I think it's the same one 222 is on.
01:00
Okay, all right, so 4635 Ellis, the person called up hell with the kids,
01:04
is the near Drexel, right? That's what you're saying?
01:07
99 and he was calling about a person asking for help in apartment at 1c.
01:11
All right, well, this, we got a bottom-up fire on the 9th floor.
01:14
We haven't gotten any information on what apartment, but the kids that they claim were outside the ledge, there were some kids that were sitting outside the ledge.
01:23
That's what he said.
01:24
Yeah, 99. I'm pretty sure it's a dude from that fire on Dressel.
01:30
All right, all the tools.
01:31
All right, dude.
01:32
There was a due call for a woman standing in the window with a child, I mean, with a, yeah, two children standing in the window for this fire.
01:42
Do you guys get anybody from over there?
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Location mentioned:
Near S Drexel Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
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