VIDEOS: Multiple people were rescued after a building fire on the city’s North Side on Thursday, according to the Chicago Fire Department. Chopper 7 captured as firefighters climbed the stairs of a high-rise building in the 5400-block of N. Kenmore Avenue. One person was in critical condition while eight others were taken to the hospital with serious injuries, CFD 2nd District Chief Robert Jurewicz said. Thanks to the responding companies, many lives were saved. Crews immediately began to evacuate the building which is full of senior citizens. Forty to 50-foot ladders were put up to rescue residents. Some of whom were hanging out of the windows of the eight-story building. Smoke was seen billowing out of the fourth floor where the fire started in a rear apartment unit. About 125 firefighters were on scene, working frantically both to fight the fire and to conduct the rescues, Jurewicz said.
