A 2-year-old girl was found unresponsive after an extensive search of the building and attempts to resuscitate the child failed, according to the Fire Department.
Fire officials said it's unclear if the girl was alone when the fire broke out -- but she was found alone. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza spoke with members of the girl's daycare who brought balloons and bears in a growing memorial at the apartment. They said that had it not been for this tragedy she would have been with them today.From a distance, family came by to salvage anything they could from this apartment, teary-eyed, carrying framed photos that survived.
We're told that it took exceptional effort to pull her out of there and that there was so much debris covering her. There were no smoke detectors in her unit -- though there were others in the building that the Chicago Fire Department says wasn't working. The management company of the building wouldn't tell us anything about their smoke detectors, but they did say this:
"We are dismayed and saddened to learn of a fatal fire reported at an apartment building we manage in the Roseland neighborhood and are actively monitoring the situation as we await a full report from the Chicago Fire Department," said WPD Management. Investigators are still working to figure out what caused the fire to start -- the Chicago Police Department was also at the apartment hours after the fire was put out. Further information was not immediately available.
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