Domino's Employees Save Young Boy From Oak Lawn Trailer Fire
OAK LAWN, IL — A father and his young sons fled shivering in the night as a fire tore through their mobile home early Monday morning in Oak Lawn.
The first call came at 1:15 a.m. of a fire in the Airway Mobile Home Community at 90th Street and Cicero Avenue. The trailer was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.
“We don’t believe the call came from the residence as the father and one of his sons were able to self-evacuate,” said Chief Mike McMillin, of the Oak Lawn Fire Department. “Two civilians were able to help the father break a window and get the other boy out.”
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Two Domino’s employees, Nasereddin Khanfar and his co-worker, Sarah Johnson, were closing up for the night when they noticed the trailer on fire across the street. The flames were so high they scorched a tree, Khanfar told Patch.
“We see the fire and the father is trying to get the kids outside,” Khanfar said, a driver for Domino’s. “We saw the father trying to open the window. We helped him break the window and got the boy out.”
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In November 2023, another mobile home adjacent to the one that burned Monday, was also destroyed by a fire leaving an empty lot. The father and his sons who escaped stood outside on Cicero Avenue wrapped in blankets. No injuries were reported.
“It was north of the unit and probably contributed to the fire not spreading,” the fire chief said. “Firefights had access.”
McMillan said the only three occupants in the mobile home were the father and his two children. It took approximately 30 minutes to extinguish the blaze.
“It’s good that people are willing to get involved and help,” McMillin said of the two Domino’s workers that ran across the street to help the man.
The mobile home was gutted by the fire. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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