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A THREE-ALARM FIRE IN MAYWOOD, ILLINOIS, late Friday night was punctuated by the rescue of a boy about 9 years old who was alone in his apartment. The fire in the Chicago suburb started in the rear of the first floor of a 3-story commercial building that has apartments on the upper floors. The fire began around 11:30 pm and an automatic alarm notified the FD.
When the first units arrived they were told of the boy in one of the apartments and a woman not yet accounted for in another unit. A 2nd alarm was struck shortly after.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Firefighter Tony Morrone was part of the team searching the interior when he found an 8- or 9-year-old boy sleeping in a bedroom, Maywood Fire Chief Keith Dobberfuhl said.
“The boy was under the layer of smoke when [Morrone] found him,” Dobberfuhl said. “The boy was asleep face down. Morrone carried him through the smoke and brought him down the staircase. All the while, the kid was calm and just waking up. [The kid's] dad was waiting outside,” Dobberfuhl said. The father took himself and his son to stay at a neighbor’s house a block away, he said.
Morrone has been a firefighter with the Maywood Fire Department for 15 years, Dobberfuhl said.
The 3rd alarm was struck shortly after midnight and the fire was declared out at 4 am Saturday morning. During the operations part of the second floor collapsed onto the first floor, but the entire 3rd floor remained intact and the late-19th century building is believed to be repairable. The woman who was missing at first was later found to have been led out of the fire by another tenant.
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