A person probably making an attempt to remain heat apparently began a hearth in a storage space for a preferred Lincoln Park restaurant early Friday.
The person and a firefighter had been taken to hospitals when propane tanks started burning at 4:20 a.m. at Cafe Brauer, 2021 N. Stockton Drive, Chicago Fireplace Division officers stated.
“The fireplace was within the shed the place the propane tanks are saved,” stated fireplace division spokesperson Larry Langford. “The tanks had been on fireplace.”
A hazardous supplies alarm was known as in the course of the emergency as a result of propane is flammable.
A firefighter was taken to Rush College Medical Heart with a “very minor” damage whereas the 46-year-old man probably concerned with the hearth was hospitalized with a medical concern and brought to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Heart, the place he was in truthful situation, police stated.
Neither damage was burn-related.
The fireplace was shortly extinguished and the incident been turned over to police for a legal investigation, officers stated.
