2 firefighters hurt battling blaze at Resurrection Hospital in Norwood Park

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two firefighters suffered minor injuries while fighting an extra-alarm fire at Presence Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago's Norwood Park neighborhood.

None of the 230 patients was injured, although some were evacuated and moved to different wings of the hospital while more than 200 firefighters responded.

The fire broke out around 10 p.m. Thursday in the hospital's kitchen. Flames spread to the second floor chapel. The chapel's high ceilings were a challenge, fire officials said.

"The most dangerous fires we fight - this is a chapel, cathedral ceilings and everything. The fire worked its way up the wall and into the cathedral ceiling, which had us very nervous there," Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Jose Santiago said.

Eighty fire trucks were called to the scene and the fire was struck early Friday morning.

The two injured firefighters were taken in good condition to Lutheran General Hospital in northwest suburban Park Ridge.