4 Firefighters Injured Fighting West Side Blaze, Taken to Hospital -- UPDATED

CHICAGO, IL, UPDATED --CFD Media sent out a tweet reporting on the conditions of the four firefighters who were injured fighting a fire on the West Side with a mayday alarm.

All four firefighters are male, two in their 50s, one 30-year-old and the other in his mid-40s. The firefighters suffered first and second degree burns, smoke and heat related injuries.

Four Chicago firefighters were injured fighting a West Side fire on Sunday afternoon. The firefighters were taken to Stroger Hospital where all four are reported to be “stabilized” according a Tweet by CFD Media.

CFD responded to a fire around 12:30 p.m. Sunday in a residential building at 4926 W. Potomac Ave. around 12:30 p.m. Sunday. While fighting the blaze a mayday alarm was sent out.

Another Tweet went out that all companies were accounted for. No information is available on what happened to injured firefighters. Five civilians were checked out and refused hospital transport. Six people who lived at the building are displaced.

According to the Chicago Tribune, one of the injured firefighters that checked in at the hospital was strapped to a gurney and sitting up. He appeared alert and was holding a water bottle was wearing an oxygen mask.