Girl, 12, Killed In Northwest Suburban Fire
A 12-year-old girl was killed in a fire early Friday that destroyed a home in northwest suburban McHenry.
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A 12-year-old girl was killed in a fire early Friday that destroyed a home in northwest suburban McHenry.
One person was seriously injured during a fire early Friday that left seven people displaced from their home in the West Pullman neighborhood on the South Side.
Indiana state fire marshals ruled the Jan. 20 fire at a 117-year-old building at 119th and Sheridan in Whiting, Ind., was caused by ignitable liquid on the floor of the dress shop on the first floor, and have handed over the case to police.
A woman died from smoke inhalation Friday morning after a fire started in her home in the 5000 block of Indiana 10 in Newton County.
A firefighter was among three people injured early Friday during a fire in the North Side Rogers Park neighborhood.
A polling place in Lincoln Heights was forced to close because of a nearby fire, according to a release from the Cook County Clerk's office.
Two firefighters were injured early Tuesday when a porch roof collapsed as they were battling an extra-alarm blaze in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
A 73-year-old woman died Thursday morning in a fire at her home in the Northwest Side Old Irving neighborhood.
A high school senior was killed in a fire in the South Austin neighborhood overnight. An 18-year-old male also was injured when he jumped from a second-floor window to escape the blaze.
Two women found dead inside a burning Chatham neighborhood building were stabbed to death before the building was intentionally set on fire, authorities said.
A woman was hospitalized after she jumped out of a third floor window when a fire erupted inside a home in the Englewood neighborhood on Monday night.
Fire officials in north suburban Zion say there was no danger to the public from a fire Thursday morning at the Zion Nuclear Power Plant.
Firefighters were battling a large house fire in northwest suburban Bensenville early Monday.
All of the firefighters were taken to Resurrection Hospital in good condition.
Six months from now, the Lyric Opera accident that left fire-breathing stilt-walker Wesley Daniel with second-degree burns on his neck will likely be only a "bad memory," Daniel's doctor said Thursday.
One firefighter was hurt battling an extra-alarm blaze at an abandoned New City factory that made parade floats Monday night on the South Side.
The Huntley Fire Chief says a 47-year-old man died in that fire - and that the fire started in that man's apartment on the ground floor of the apartment building.
The fire was on the 7th floor of a 27-story high rise at 230 E. Ontario St., according to the Fire Department.
More than 80 fire departments are battling an eight-alarm fire at a factory in southeastern Wisconsin.
A fire on the West Side sent two adults and two children to the hospital on Tuesday morning.
Investigators determined the blaze had started in the kitchen, where a burner on the stove had been switched on. When the owner arrived, he had an explanation.
The Chicago Fire Department has determined the extra-alarm blaze that gutted a Bridgeport warehouse was caused when an open flame in the building ignited combustible material inside.
Three children were hurt in a house fire Wednesday night in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, one of them a 4-year-old girl who suffered burns on 40 percent of her body.
Firefighters were at the scene of an extra-alarm blaze at a large vacant warehouse in the Bridgeport neighborhood Tuesday night.
Two people were killed, and one other resident and one firefighter were injured in a high-rise fire on the South Side on Tuesday.
