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Video from Steve Redick (SRResquire) of a fire Sunday night in a building at 5601 Irving Park Road housing a restaurant on the ground floor and apartments above.
A Chicago police officer rescued a 72-year-old woman by throwing her over his back and carrying her down the stairs during an extra-alarm fire in the Portage Park neighborhood Sunday night, police said.
Police and firefighters were searching the building to make sure residents were out when officer Terry Abbate and his partner Karl Hervai came across a woman inside one unit who was reluctant to leave, the report said.
Abbate put the victim over his shoulder and proceeded down the stairs and out of the building as smoke filled the stairwell, the report said. She was not injured during the blaze.
