Watseka Fire Sends Four to Hospital

Four people were injured, two seriously, in a Watseka House fire Saturday afternoon in the 600 Block of East Mulberry Street.  Smoke and flames were already visible from the front and back of the home when firefighters arrived just after noon.  Watseka fire said two of the four residents had left the home earlier, but returned in time for the family’s grandfather to pull his grandchild and the child’s great grandmother out of the burning home.  She was airlifted to Loyola Medical Center suffering from burns and smoke inhalation.  The fire was apparently started by the child with a cigarette lighter in the home’s living room.