Crime & Safety Fallen Firefighter ID’d As 14-Year Chicago Fire Department Veteran The 39-year-old firefighter was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center following the Monday morning fire. Replies (41)
Andrew “Drew” Price, 39, joined the Chicago Fire Department in 2009. (Chicago Fire Department)
CHICAGO — A firefighter died Monday following an early morning fire at a building in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. The 39-year-old was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition following the fire at a four-story building that houses the Lincoln Station bar/restaurant on the first floor.
“On behalf of the Fire Commissioner, it is my sad duty to report the passing of our member injured this morning at 2430 Lincoln,” Larry Langford, director of the Chicago Fire Department, said in a social media post.
On behalf of the Fire Commisioner, it is my sad duty to report the passing of our member injured this morning at 2430 Lincoln. Commissioner Nance-Holt will address media at Illinois Masonic. About 945, subject to change. Langford
— Chicago Fire Media (@CFDMedia) November 13, 2023 CFD Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt identified the fallen firefighter as Andrew “Drew” Price, 39, during a press conference outside the hospital. Nance-Holt said that at around 6 a.m., Price was on the roof of the four-story mixed use building “opening holes” when he fell through a light shaft. She said firefighters forced a hole in a wall where he was trapped to bring him out.
Nance-Holt said he died from “significant injuries.” Price was a member of Engine 55, Truck 44, and a member of the Chicago Fire Department since March 2009.
“Illinois Masonic did everything they could to help our member’s outcome,” Nance-Holt said during the press conference, held just before 10 a.m.
Nance-Holt, who described Price as a “very good friend,” said his wife was at the hospital, along with family members and firefighters from his company. She said he was a “leader and great firefighter.” Price was set to turn 40 in January, according to the CFD. “Everybody called him ‘Drew.’ We knew him as ‘Drew.’ He worked out. He was a health nut, loved by so many and will be missed by all,” Nance-Holt said.
She asked the public to keep the Chicago Fire Department, along with Price’s family, in their prayers. “This job is a very, very dangerous job. We go to work, and we never know if we’ll come home,” Nance-Holt said. “We just ask for everybody to continue to pray for us, continue to pray for his family and especially his co-workers behind me who still have to go back to work and do this job without their team member.”
Fallen Firefighter ID’d As 14-Year Chicago Fire Department Veteran
