Fire Department officials said crews faced challenges searching the home, because the man who lived there was a hoarder.
A man was killed and a firefighter suffered minor injuries during an extra-alarm fire Monday morning in Humboldt Park.
Just before 6 a.m., the Chicago Fire Department responded to a heavy fire at a two-story home in the 1800 block of Sawyer Avenue. The fire spread to both the first and second floor of the house. Crews are battling a fire in Humboldt Park. Sources say a firefighter was injured. More from CBSN: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/live/Fire Department officials confirmed a man died in the fire. He was found on the second floor of the fire.
Crews had to pull back from the building while battling the blaze, because boxes were piled up to the ceiling inside the home. There was so much stuff, firefighters couldn't make their way through to focus on the fire. "Because of the hoarding conditions, because this guy was a hoarder, we had trouble doing searches," said Assistant Deputy Fire Commissioner Donald Walker."It's just hard to do a search when the conditions are like that."A firefighter was injured after falling off a ladder on the scene. He was not seriously hurt. Firefighters haven't said if the home had any working smoke detectors.Thanks for reading CBS NEWS.
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