Three Hurt When Water Tank Falls In Chicago

Three people were hurt — one critically — when a water tank fell into an alley in the Lakeview neighborhood on Wednesday, sending water and debris flying. The wooden tank fell from the roof the 120-year-old Brewster Building, a 9-story apartment building in the 2800 block of North Pine Grove Avenue around 10 a.m. The tank was from a 100-year-old water tower on the roof. “It had been modernized at some point, because it has a liner inside of it. For reasons we don’t yet know, it failed, and fell all the way to the parking lot,” Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said.Three people were hurt when the tank fell into the parking lot, where a man and woman were getting into a car. The woman was critically injured by falling debris.