A 26-year veteran of the Chicago Fire Department died while responding to a blaze in a high-rise apartment building on Wednesday morning, the second firefighter to die in the city in as many days, officials said. Lt. Jan Tchoryk, a 55-year-old Navy veteran who served in Operation Des...
A third member of the Chicago Fire Department has died from COVID-19. Paramedic Robert Truevillian, who joined the department in 2000, died from complications of the virus, Chicago fire officials said Thursday in a statement posted to Twitter. Truevillian was assigned to ambulance 71, which op...
CHICAGO (CBS)-- Chicago firefighter and EMT Andrew Price, a 14-year veteran of the department who was described as a "great leader" and "wonderful young man," died Monday after hefell through the roofwhile battling a fire in Lincoln Park. He was 39. The fire broke out in the four-s...
When did Leslie Shay die on Chicago Fire? Shay met her unfortunate end in Chicago Fire Season 2, Episode 22 ("Real Never Waits"). Shay was among the Firehouse 51 emergency personnel crew who responded to a massive fire at a boarding school that broke out during Chief Wallace Boden's (Ea...
Boy who died had autism, neighbor said ByJessica D'Onofrio Friday, January 8, 2021A 6-year-old boy died Wednesday night during a fire in Chicago's far South Side Altgeld Gardens neighborhood.CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 6-year-old boy died during a house fire Wednesday night in Chicago's Alt...
Neighbors said the person who died in the fire was a man in his 70s who appeared to live alone. He was found on the second floor. Fire officials say efforts to rescue him and put out the flames were complicated because of what they say was a hoarding situation inside the home. Firefigh...
CHICAGO (CBS)-- A longtime Chicago firefighterinjured in a blaze on the city's Northwest Sidemore than two weeks ago has died, according to the Chicago Fire Department. On Tuesday, those who knew and loved Lt. Kevin Ward, 59, gathered to say goodbye. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar spoke to...
Two firefighters died after a wall collapsed during a 3-11 alarm fire at an abandonedSouth Sidecommercial building this morning, authorities said. Fourteen other firefighters were injured, including two who were trapped with the ones who died. ...
CHICAGO — The mother of the7-year-old boy who diedafter a house fire on the Northwest side earlier this week has died. According to the Cook County Medical Examiner, 36-year-old Summer Day-Stewart died Friday following her injuries sustained in Tuesday evening’s fire. ...
Molly Glynn, an actress who recurred on NBC’sChicago Fire, died Saturday after getting struck by a falling tree. She was 46. Glynn was riding her bike with husbandJoe Foustin Chicago’s Erickson Woods on Friday afternoon when the tree fell and hit her, according toCBS. She was taken ...