{"id":529025,"date":"2026-01-20T04:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/529025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:31:11","slug":"west-town-chicago-fire-today-2-firefighters-civilian-injured-in-apartment-fire-in-800-block-of-north-may-street-cfd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/529025\/","title":{"rendered":"West Town, Chicago fire today: 2 firefighters, civilian injured in apartment fire in 800-block of North May Street, CFD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Two firefighters and one civilian were injured in a West Side fire on Monday evening, the Chicago Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">CFD said the fire broke out in the second floor of an apartment building in the West Town area&#8217;s 800-block of North May Street.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">CFD upgraded its response, and at one point, there was a mayday call for a trapped firefighter. But a few minutes later, that mayday call was cleared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Flames could be seen shooting from the roof as crews worked in frigid conditions. They were able to extinguish the fire around 9:50 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">All three of those injured were transported to hospitals, CFD said. Officials did not say how serious their injuries are or what conditions they are in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">How the fire started was not immediately known. Officials did not immediately provide further information.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Two firefighters and one civilian were injured in a West Side fire on Monday evening,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":529026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[234665,960,5463,11222,46098,5462,105327,5386,1818,27750,234664],"class_list":["post-529025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-234665","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-breaking-news","tag-chicago-fire","tag-chicago-fire-department","tag-chicago-news","tag-fire-today","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-west-town","tag-west-town-chicago"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115925554522201683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}