Three minors are in the hospital after a fire at a Chicago Housing Authority building in the city’s Douglas neighborhood Wednesday afternoon.
“When initial companies arrived, there was heavy fire on the fourth floor,” said Deputy District Chief John Giordano. “We extinguished the fire pretty quickly and there were three children that were transported to Comer Children’s with non-life threatening injuries.”
According to officials with the Chicago Fire Department, all three children were under 12 years old and taken from a six-story apartment building in the 2900 block of South State Street around 1 p.m. to Comer Children’s Hospital.
Fire officials said one of the children suffered a minor burn, while the other two experienced slight smoke inhalation.