A Chicago Fire Department firefighter was critically injured in a Gage Park warehouse blaze Friday morning on the Southwest Side.
The fire erupted sometime before 8 a.m. in the 5700 block of South Kedzie Avenue, according to fire officials. The fire was extinguished by 8:35 a.m., according to the fire department in a post on X, formally known as Twitter.
The firefighter was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was in critical condition, officials said.
The firefighter was “conscious and alert” according to scanner dispatch audio.
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