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Chicago Firefighters Battle Elderly High Rise Fire.
November 21, 2012 | ILLINOIS
RICK PENNOCK, Senior Correspondent
Photo by Paul PennockChicago Firefighter's on scene of a elderly high rise fire.
Photo by Paul PennockChicago firefighters work a fire in a elderly high rise.
This article is a direct street report from our correspondent and has not been edited by the 1st Responder newsroom.
An extra-alarm fire broke out at a senior citizen high-rise building on the city's near West Side.The CHA senior high-rise, called the Patrick Sullivan Apartments, is located at 1633 W. Madison. WGN-TV is hearing reports that three people have been injured. The fire has been struck, but there is a Plan 2 in effect which calls for about 10 ambulances.