CHICAGO — A firefighter has died and three others were injured at an extra-alarm blaze at a high-rise building on DuSable Lake Shore Drive in the Gold Coast neighborhood, officials said.
It marks the second firefighter to die in two days during a blaze.
At about 8 a.m., a 2-11 alarm was called at the building on the 1200 block of North DuSable Lake Shore Drive and a “mayday” alert and 3-11 were activated when the firefighter, Lt. Jan Tchoryk, 55, “went down” as he worked the fire scene, Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt said.
