CFD to honor fallen firefighter Mashawn Plummer with badge ceremony Friday
Family, friends, and colleagues will remember firefighter Mashawn Plummer during a badge ceremony Friday morning.
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Family, friends, and colleagues will remember firefighter Mashawn Plummer during a badge ceremony Friday morning.
The First Responders Classic took place at Guaranteed Rate Field.
The department is also dedicating a brick to Pickering at the Firefighter Memorial Park.
Firefighters were in the air and water as the Chicago Fire Department held a rescue demonstration at 57th Street beach Friday.
They taught neighbors how to apply tourniquets and perform CPR.
The Chicago Fire Department on Saturday invited the community to hang out and learn.
In addition to being illegal in Chicago, the city's Fire Department emphasizes that fireworks are dangerous.
In addition to being illegal in Chicago, the city’s Fire Department emphasizes that fireworks are dangerous.
The Chicago Fire Department offered a final salute Wednesday for firefighter/EMT Timothy Eiland.
The department offered a customary salute for an active member as firefighters came together to mourn.
The building partially collapsed, but no injuries were reported.
More than a dozen CPD officers have died by suicide in the last four years. Until now, families of those officers did not get any work-related death benefits.
Two homes were destroyed. One was a family home passed down for generations.
One firefighter was hospitalized for minor injuries, the Chicago Fire Department said.
A 46-year-old Chicago man remains in the Grundy County Jail on charges of fleeing and resisting police, after he stole a Chicago Fire Department ambulance and led police on a 75-mile pursuit this week.
Benjamin Herrington, of Chicago, is charged with fleeing to elude a peace officer, resisting/obstructing a peace officer, and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
The suspect got out of the ambulance near Dwight and appeared to surrender, only to take off running before police tackled him. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports.
CBS 2's Brad Edwards and Marie Saavedra are live from the studio, and Kris Habermehl is over the scene in Chopper 2, as police apprehend a man who stole a Chicago Fire Department ambulance and drove for more than an hour down I-55.
Chopper 2 was overhead as police apprehended the suspect in the theft of the Chicago Fire Department ambulance in Dwight, Illinois.
An ambulance was stolen late Monday and was seen headed down the Stevenson Expressway into the southwest suburbs. Kris Habermehl reports from Chopper 2.
The fire erupted on Good Friday and flared up again Saturday morning.
The man was hospitalized in critical condition.
A Chicago firefighter was hospitalized Sunday night after responding to a house fire.
While there has been some concern that the recent fires in Albany Park might be related, the Office of Fire Investigations says that is not the case.
An ambulance rushing to a gunshot victim to the hospital was struck by a sport-utility vehicle in Ashburn Sunday afternoon.
