The video above is from an earlier report.
CHICAGO (CBS) Two people were killed and three children were among five others injured after two overnight fires on the city’s south side, according to police and fire officials.
The fires occurred in the South Shore and Bridgeport neighborhoods.
One of the fires started indoors around 2:30 am a three-storey building in the 2400 block of East 78th Street in South Shore.
A 24-year-old man was found dead at the scene. Another man, 27, was taken to Trinity Hospital for a non-fire related injury. A woman was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition.
Two boys, 2 and 7, were taken to Comer Children’s Hospital with unknown injuries. The condition of the 2-year-old was good, the condition of the 7-year-old was critical.
Officials were investigating the cause of the fire.
Chicago Fire Department
Around the same time, crews were fighting another fire that killed one person in an apartment in the 3100 block of South Green Street in Bridgeport just before 2:30 a.m
Firefighters fought the flames from the roof and ground.
Chicago Fire Department
Chicago police said a man threw an incendiary device through the apartment window.
A woman, 54, was pronounced dead at the scene. A 12-year-old girl was taken to Stroger Hospital by firefighters in fair condition.
No arrests have been made and an arson unit is investigating.
