Fire kills boy, 5, also injures 3 kids, 2 women in Park Manor

Police are investigating the cause of a house fire early this morning on the South Side that killed a 5-year-old boy and seriously injured three other children and two women.

A fire department spokesman said there were no signs of foul play in the blaze.

The fire broke out around 11:30 p.m. in a 2½-story brick home in the 6900 block of South Wabash Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood.

An emergency medical plan was called, sending several ambulances to the blaze before it was brought under control around 12:20 a.m. today, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Joe Roccasalva.

All the victims lived on the first floor, police said. A family had just moved out of the second floor.

Christand Densmore, 5, was pronounced dead at 12:45 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

A boy and girl between the ages of 2 and 4 were taken in critical condition to Comer Children's Hospital, Roccasalva said. A girl who appeared to be 7 was taken in serious condition to Saint Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center.

A woman was taken in serious condition to Saint Bernard and another woman was taken in critical condition to University of Chicago Hospitals, Roccasalva said. At least one of the women was in her 60s, he said.

At 3:45 a.m., an elderly woman was transferred to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, police said.