Emergency crews battle fire in Ravenswood

81-year-old man dead following Ravenswood blaze

An 81-year-old man was killed in a Ravenswood fire Thursday evening on the North Side. The fire broke out at a home in the 5100 block of North Oakley Avenue around 5 p.m., Chicago police said. Jose Alcazar, 81, was found inside and taken to Swedish Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 5:45 p.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner's office said. Alcazar lived in the same block. Seven others inside the home were able to escape uninjur…

81-year-old killed in Ravenswood house fire

An 81-year-old man died overnight after he was rescued from a fire in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood Thursday afternoon, police said. The deadly house fire broke out around 5 p.m. Thursday on the 5100 block of North Oakley Avenue, police said.The fire engulfed the home as firefighters battled the blaze, with flames shooting from a second-story window of the structure. Fire officials said the close proximity of houses in the area posed a chall…

Ravenswood house fire sends man to hospital: CFD

A Chicago fire on North Oakley Avenue in Ravenswood sent a man to the hospital Thursday evening, CFD said.

Emergency crews battle fire in Ravenswood

CHICAGO — Emergency crews were called to the scene of a fire that erupted on the city's Noth Side on Thursday afternoon. The blaze broke out in a building in the 5100 block of North Oakley Avenue in Ravenswood. Read more: Latest Chicago news and headlines SkyCam9 was over the scene at around 5:20 p.m. when smoke could be seen billowing from the building's roof as crews worked to control the blaze. Currently, it is unclear what sparked the …