One person has died after a
created a huge cloud of thick smoke near O’Hare airport.
Oskar Dziadon, 50, of Spring Grove died Wednesday night at Loyola Hospital, after suffering serious burns in Tuesday’s fire, ABC news partner the
reported.
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Acting Elk Grove Village Fire Chief Nathan Gac said the person injured in the fire was a worker.
No one else was injured.
The fire broke out about 6 a.m. Tuesday in the 2400-block of Pan Am Boulevard.
Fire officials said they had to notify the control tower at O’Hare of what was going on.
A large fire sent a large plume of black smoke into the air near O’Hare Airport.
Chopper 7 flew above the scene of the semi-tractor repair facility where a building, four trailers, two tractors and seven cars were burning.
“So there was a significant amount of black smoke, a heavy volume of black smoke, mostly on the exterior of the building, ranging between 50 to 60 feet in the air,” Gac said.