CHICAGO (WLS) -- Ten people were hospitalized after a fire in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood Thursday night, the Chicago Fire Department said.

The flames and smoke filled the apartment building in the 1500-block of North Karlov Avenue.

Families returned to the scene Friday morning stunned by the damage left behind.

Their home is unrecognizable after a fire started in the basement of an apartment building just before midnight.

"I'm just trying to help them put some of their stuff away and make sure they have at least some security for what they have left, because they lost everything pretty much," Alexander Espada, who lives next door, said.

Espada is helping his neighbors retrieve their belongings and salvage as much as they can.

"I just want to make sure they're OK," Espada sa

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