CHICAGO — Eight people are dead, including six children, after a fire blazed through a Chicago home early Sunday.
According to CNN, officials with the Chicago Fire Department said one of the dead was a baby. Two children and a firefighter also were being treated for injuries at a nearby hospital, authorities said. The firefighter was in good condition, WGN reported. One teen and an adult were in critical condition, the television station reported.
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Fire officials, who said the home had no smoke detectors, were still investigating what caused the fire.
Firefighters were called just before 4 a.m., Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Merritt said. The blaze consumed at least two buildings, according to The Chicago Tribune. The blaze was brought under control by 5:10 a.m., WLS reported.
Merritt said that all of the people killed and injured were all taken from the same residence, the Tribune reported.