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An injured firefighter is taken away from a burning building in the 300 block of East 73rd Street early Friday morning. (WGN-TV / November 16, 2012) |
A firefighter fell through the floor while battling a blaze at a vacant building on the South Side this morning and was pulled to safety by other firefighters, officials said.
The firefighter suffered a broken right arm and was taken to the University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said. He was treated and released.
A mayday was called when the firefighter fell through the first floor of the vacant two-story building near Calumet Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive. Other firefighters pulled him out through a basement window, officials said.
The fire had started in the basement but was already out, Langford said.
The building stretches about half a block, between Calumet Avenue and an alley to the east. The building's first-floor windows were boarded up.
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