Woman Critically Injured In West Side Fire
A female with severe burns to her body was critically injured early Saturday after a two-story apartment building caught fire in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
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A female with severe burns to her body was critically injured early Saturday after a two-story apartment building caught fire in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
A man identifying himself as Richard stood on a neighbor's porch, as firefighters put out the fast-moving fire and tossed smoldering furniture out the first floor windows.
An early morning fire on Christmas Eve in the Gresham neighborhood has left 16 people displaced, including three children.
Two people, including one person rescued unconscious from a smoke-filled basement, were hurt in a house fire early Monday in north suburban Highland Park.
No injuries reported in fire at abandoned home.
Two people were killed, and three others were injured, when a fire swept through a home in west suburban Naperville on Tuesday.
City officials are still waiting for all utilities to be cut off at the site, at 32 W. 8th St., before they move forward with an emergency demolition.
A firefighter was injured and 14 people, including nine children, were displaced after a fire in the South Chicago neighborhood early Saturday.
No one was hurt when Skokie firefighters battled a blaze at a facility for developmentally disabled adults Tuesday night, amid bitingly cold conditions.
A battalion chief with the Hobart Fire Department was taken to a Crown Point hospital Tuesday morning with severe burns after crashing a minivan into a house near Hebron
The fire broke out about 11:50 p.m. in the top floor of a four-floor apartment building in the 6200 block of South King Drive.
The fire began about 12:35 a.m. in the rear of a two-story frame house in the 4900 block of West Superior Street.
A good chunk of the building at 8th Avenue and Washington Street collapsed, but no one was injured during the blaze.
A report by federal investigators has concluded that poor on-site communication was a contributing factor in the death of a veteran Chicago firefighter last year
Ten people were displaced after a fire Thursday morning in an East Garfield Park apartment building on the West Side.
Firefighters are working to extinguish an extra-alarm fire at an apartment building in the South Side Chatham neighborhood.
The fire started in a 1-1/2-story frame house about 1 a.m. in the 200 block of West 113th Street.
A five-alarm barn fire that has been burning since Tuesday evening in northwest suburban Union is under control early Wednesday, although it could take up to two days for crews to completely extinguish it.
A teenager playing with a lighter in bed caused a basement fire in a northwest suburban Elgin home Monday night, injuring one man and causing about $10,000 in damage to the house.
During the class, methanol was being burned inside a container, which shattered, causing the chemical to spill, Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said.
The Red Cross says last Sunday's tornadoes illustrate how disasters can devastate communities, but it says the biggest threat to Chicago area families isn't severe weather, but fires.
No one was hurt in a hard-fought fire overnight in Lyons, but it appears the blaze did destroy one of the town's landmarks.
Two people were displaced by a vacant building fire Saturday morning that spread to a nearby home in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
No one was home when a fire Monday morning killed several cats and did $100,000 to a home in southwest suburban Oswego.
Initial dispatch reports -- later determined to be unfounded -- said there might be people trapped on the first floor of the building.
