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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Sophie Sherry

‘Nobody had been able to reach her.’ Frantic search as one killed, several hurt in extra-alarm fire in Kenwood high-rise

Chicago Fire Department firefighters work to extinguish a fire that broke out in an apartment on the 15th floor and climbed nine floors in a high-rise building Wednesday in the 4800 block of South Lake Park Avenue in Kenwood on the South Side. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Jauntanne Mayes rushed to the burning high-rise in Kenwood Wednesday morning, hoping she could help an elderly retired teacher she called her aunt because they were so close.

“I knew that she could not get down the stairs by herself, and unfortunately they wouldn’t let me up to go and check on her,” Mayes told reporters as smoke still rose from the upper floors of the apartment complex at 4850 S. Lake Park Ave. 

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