Space heaters also were used in the two-flat, as it didn’t have a functioning heating system, but those heaters did not appear to start the fire, according to Chicago fire officials.
An 88-year-old woman and her 70-year-old son were found dead in an apartment early Tuesday after Chicago firefighters extinguished a blaze in the building — which did not have working heat and was so filled with belongings it was difficult for firefighters to move around inside the first-floor unit, according to Chicago fire officials.
Neighbors told the fire department they were mother and son, said Larry Langford, a spokesman for the Fire Department.Emergency responders were called to the 3600 block of North Kedvale Avenue in the Old Irving Park neighborhood around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, Chicago police and Fire Department officials said. The pair were pronounced dead before 5 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
Since 2008, cigarettes sold in Illinois have had to pass safety standards indicating they should not burn all the way down if left unattended, according to the state’s website. A study cited byin 2017 indicated that all 50 states had implemented similar laws by 2012, but their effectiveness in fire prevention was unclear.
Landlords in Chicago are required to provide heat or maintain functioning individual unit heating equipment, according to Title 14X of the city’s municipal code. The code specifies that space heaters do not meet this requirement.
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