5 Families Displaced By Fire At Elgin Apartment Building
Firefighters responded shortly before 3 p.m. and found smoke in a basement laundry room of the building in the 300 block of Kathleen Drive, according to the Elgin Fire Department.
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Firefighters responded shortly before 3 p.m. and found smoke in a basement laundry room of the building in the 300 block of Kathleen Drive, according to the Elgin Fire Department.
Several suburban fire departments responded to an immense blaze early Tuesday in northwest suburban Barrington.
The cause of the fire is undetermined, but authorities believe it began on the roof. They should know if it was arson in about a week.
A family owned dress shop in west suburban Elmhurst was destroyed by a fire on Thursday.
The man was identified as 60-year-old Louis S. Cohen of Highland Park. He was a prominent real estate attorney in Chicago.
Firefighters responded about 1:40 a.m. to the single-vehicle crash in the 900 block of West Algonquin Road, according to the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District.
A Chicago firefighter suffered several broken ribs when he fell from the second floor of a home early Wednesday while fighting a fire in the Austin neighborhood.
The firefighter fell while battling the blaze and was taken to Stroger Hospital, Langford said. His injuries were not thought to be life-threatening.
The rubbish fire started about 5:40 p.m. and was under control soon after, according to the CTA and the Chicago Fire Department.
Police said an unidentified body was found at the scene of the fire.
The cause of the fire was still under investigation Monday afternoon.
A family escaped an early morning fire in the Roseland neighborhood on Wednesday, when a young man helped lead his grandparents out of the burning house.
The community is helping a man who lost everything after a fire burned down his mobile home in Hegewisch.
A fire chief said he discovered a frightening and dangerous lack of working smoke detectors in homes in a suburban neighborhood after a fire left several people homeless last week.
A fire that left three young children dead at an apartment complex Friday night in northwest Indiana was intentionally set, authorities claim.
Crews found a rapidly progressing fire in the 20-unit building in the 200 block of North Oakhurst. Wind contributed to the growth of the blaze.
New details have been released on what may have caused a fire that took the lives of three young children in Gary, Indiana.
Investigators in Gary, Indiana are still trying to figure out what caused a fire that killed three young children.
A Chicago firefighter was taken to the hospital for treatment after a Sunday blaze on the Far South Side.
Crews responded about 10 p.m. to the blaze in the 2000 block of South 9th Avenue, where flames had spread from two bedrooms and into the kitchen, according to the Maywood Fire Department.
The Christmas weekend had a tragic start in Gary, Indiana, as three children died, and a woman was injured in a fire in an apartment building late Friday night.
The fire started around 1 a.m. at a home in the 600 block of Mohave Street.
Firefighters rescued two teenage sisters from a house fire early Tuesday in west suburban Elgin, after the sisters sent their brothers running out of the home.
Firefighters were called at 4:11 a.m. to the blaze in the 3700 block of West Division, according to the Chicago Fire Department. It was extinguished by 4:56 a.m.
