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A 83-year-old man died after being pulled from a house fire early Friday in the Ravenswood Manor neighborhood on the Northwest Side, according to Chicago Police.
Crews responded about 12:30 a.m. to the blaze in the 2900 block of West Giddings, and firefighters found the elderly man in the basement, police said.
He was taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Fire officials said he had been smoking while using an oxygen tank, igniting the fire. It was put out in about 15 minutes.
