A Chicago paramedic who also worked as a suburban firefighter was found dead Thursday after a fire in his Mount Greenwood home on the Southwest Side, authorities said.
Authorities were alerted to the fire in the 11400 block of South St. Louis Avenue and found Robert Spoon, 28, unresponsive, officials said.
Firefighters quickly struck out the fire, and Spoon was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 2:38 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Spoon is believed to have suffered a gunshot wound, but foul play was not immediately suspected, sources said. An autopsy was scheduled for Friday as detectives conducted a death investigation.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known. The Chicago police Bomb and Arson Unit was investigating.
Spoon was a 21/2-year veteran of the Chicago Fire Department and a 10-year veteran of the Hometown Fire Protection District near Oak Lawn, according to the Fire Department.
Spoon was a lieutenant with the Hometown district, according to the agency’s Twitter feed. In 2015, the district named Spoon firefighter of the year for his work coordinating its EMS department, according to minutes of a Hometown city council meeting.