Stephanie Casanova
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One person died and two others were in critical condition after a porch collapsed on them Tuesday afternoon, fire officials said.
About 4:15 p.m., brickwork at the top of a building in the 3400 block of West Jackson Boulevard in East Garfield Park collapsed and fell on the porch below, causing the stone porch to collapse as well, said Larry Langford, spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department.
Three men between the ages of 25 and 60 were on the porch when it happened, and got stuck in the rubble, Langford said.
Langford说，两名男子被带到Mt.Inai医院对粉碎伤害严重来说。
“A third person was trapped under a slab of stone,” Langford said. “It took us a while to extricate that person and that person was deceased on the scene.”
Anthony Wright, 52, who had lived on the same block where the porch collapsed, was identified early Wednesday as the man who died, according to information released by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Police blocked off Jackson with yellow tape in front of the three-story home almost three hours after the collapse, as city workers removed vehicles from in front of the home and took photos and inspected the damage.
Large slabs of stone and brick debris covered the front of the building, and the very top was hollowed out where there was once brick.
A small U.S. flag waved in the wind from a front window as neighbors looked on from their porch or from the field across the street.
一个邻国，拒绝给他的名字说，他和三个其他人试图把混凝土从男人身上抬起，但由于板坯的重沉重，它证明很难。
The men were stuck in a staircase that leads to the basement, the neighbor said. One man had a slab of concrete against his neck, but there was someone else underneath the rubble next to him.
The family that lived in the building has lived there at least 20 years, the neighbor said.
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