Raw video: Two in cardiac arrest brought out of Park Forest, Illinois house fire.
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This is raw video showing firefighters bringing a 78-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man out of a home this afternoon in Park Forest, Illinois. CPR was started, but both were pronounced dead at the hospital.
Park Forest Fire Department crews responded to the fire in the 0 to 100 block of Ash Street earlier Tuesday, and two people were killed in the blaze, a firefighter said. He declined to provide further details.
The Park Forest Fire Department, paramedics and police responded to a structure fire in the first block of Ash Street on July 10. With smoke still billowing from an upstairs bedroom, fire personnel rescued two smoke-charred, apparently non-responsive individuals from the co-op unit. Fire personnel immediately began chest compressions on the individuals, subsequently transporting them to St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights.
One of several juveniles who witnessed the fire reported hearing a “giant boom.”
