Family members say the victims were a mother and a daughter. Porsha Ford and her mother Ieashia were in the back of the home when the fire started, and that is where the majority of the damage was concentrated, according to family members.
Four other victims were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, and all four are expected to recover.
According to fire officials, no working smoke detectors were heard in the home when firefighters arrived.
The Office of Fire Investigations is on the scene to investigate the cause of the fire.
The department’s fire safety team will go door-to-door in the neighborhood to pass out smoke detectors and give out safety information after the fatal blaze, according to officials.
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CHICAGO (WLS) One man was killed and another was injured after an awning collapsed over a driveway Wednesday at an off-track betting site in Pullman on the Far South Side.
Firefighters furiously shoveled snow as fast as they could and simultaneously scrambled to saw through the collapsed canopy at Club Hawthorne Chicago, 11203 Corliss Avenue. The canopy had approximately a foot and a half of snow that accumulated on top, said Jamar Sullivan, Chicago Fire Dept. District Chief of Special Operations.
Rescuers were desperate to get to a man trapped underneath metal, wood and heavy snow. They pulled a man out from underneath the snow-covered canopy just before 5 p.m. Wednesday.