Maywood firefighter/paramedics and police responded about 4:00 a.m. Wednesday to a well-involved house fire at 809 South 16th Avenue. On arrival, police and firefighters discovered two people on the roof of the home at a temperature near zero degrees Fahrenheit. Two more women were trapped in the fire. One woman was rescued or recovered from the house, but pronounced dead at Level I Trauma Center Loyola University Medical Center at 5:41 a.m. Another woman, who was elderly and bedridden, was not able to be rescued because of unsafe fire conditions. She was believed to be dead and trapped under debris as of 10:00 a.m. after a roof collapse.
See Chicago Breaking News Officials: 2 dead in Maywood house fire for more details and updates.
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