According to a report from ABC7, the Chicago (IL) Fire Department (CFD), along with the Chicago Police Department (CPD), discovered a 70-year-old man and an 88-year-old woman dead in an apartment fire in the city’s Old Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side early Tuesday morning.
The CPD and CFD responded to the 3600 block of North Kedvale Avenue just before 2:30 a.m. for a report of fire in a two-story building.
The two bodies were found by emergency responders on the first floor of the building after CFD members had extinguished the flames.
The cause of the fire is now under investigation. The victims’ identities were not immediately released, but neighbors indicated that the woman was believed to be a longtime resident, and the man was her son.
CFD officials will canvas the neighborhood at 10 a.m. to provide smoke alarms and other safety materials for local residents.
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