1 being questioned by police on West Side fire that killed CFD Captain David Meyer​on April 24, 2025 at 4:16 pm

CHICAGO (WLS) — A person of interest is in custody and questioned about arson in connection to the death of a Chicago Fire Department captain, Chicago police said.

CPD is now handling this as a criminal investigation after the fire department said the fire was started by someone igniting the contents of a trash bin.

Captain David Meyer is being remembered as a hard working, decades-long public servant.

Firefighters were called a garage fire at about 4:03 a.m. in the 1200-block of Pine Avenue.

The fire was out when part of the garage collapsed, critically-injuring Captain Meyer. The 54-year-old later died at Stroger Hospital.

As his body was taken by ambulance from the hospital, his colleagues and loved-ones honored him with their silence in a procession to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

The more than 28-year CFD veteran leaves behind a wife and four children.

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“Her husband will never come home again,” Patrick Cleary, president of the Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2. “Their father will never come home again. We work a very dangerous job. “

Evidence from the scene has been turned over to Chicago police.