A 6-year-old boy died in a fire after being left home alone with his siblings Wednesday night in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood.
A neighbor noticed the blaze in the Far South Side row house about 9:45 p.m. and rescued four children before crews arrived, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
But the neighbor was unable to enter the second-floor bedroom where the fire started, fire department spokesman Larry Langford said. Firefighters quickly doused the flames and searched the room’s top bunkbed, where they found the 6-year-old unresponsive.
Ron Johnson, 6, was rushed from the home in the 13000 block of South Evans Avenue to Roseland Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
The child had burns on the majority of his body, Langford said.