An officer suffered smoke inhalation while rescuing after helping a man to safety early Wednesday in a Humboldt Park house fire.
Officers were on patrol around 2:50 a.m. when they noticed a residential fire in the 700 block of North Spaulding Avenue, Chicago police said.
One officer helped a man to safety while two other occupants escaped the building unharmed, police said. The officer was taken to an area hospital in good condition as a precaution for possible smoke inhalation.
Firefighters put out the fire and no further injuries were reported.