CHICAGO — A collapsed porch sent two Chicago firefighters plummeting into the basement at a two-alarm fire in a vacant home. The firefighters called a Mayday and sustained minor injuries.
“Had we had fire in that basement, things could have been a different story here,” Deputy Fire Commissioner John McNicholas told the Chicago Tribune.
RIT firefighters broke side basement windows to reach the downed firefighters.
Chicago Fire Department Spokesman Larry Langford told the Tribune that the rescue took only minutes.
“They went in right away and got them,” Langford said. “Whenever you’ve got a mayday, you’ve got a tense situation,” he said.