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Chicago Sun-Times
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Allison Novelo

Firefighter whose family died in fire at home donates organs so others can live

A board-up crew working Wednesday on the home of a Chicago firefighter in the 2500 block of North Rutherford Avenue less than 24 hours after a fire at the Montclare neighborhood house on the Northwest Side. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

The lives of two more children have been claimed in a blaze at a Chicago firefighter’s Northwest Side home that also took the lives of his wife and eldest son.

Firefighter Walter Stewart’s 2-year-old son Emory Day-Stewart and daughter Autumn Day-Stewart, 9, both died Friday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

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