Woman Dies After Being Burned In Wicker Park Fire
A 60-year-old woman died after being severely burned early Thursday in a fire caused by smoking while using oxygen in her Wicker Park neighborhood home.
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A 60-year-old woman died after being severely burned early Thursday in a fire caused by smoking while using oxygen in her Wicker Park neighborhood home.
Firefighters rescued a 53-year-old man from a blaze in Rogers Park Tuesday morning.
A pile of tires caught fire in a junkyard in south suburban Robbins overnight, prompting 15 fire departments to report to the scene.
The temperature is expected to hit a balmy 70 degrees with sunny skies Wednesday afternoon.
Spontaneous human combustion is a myth, but spontaneous combustion of other objects really can happen – and the phenomenon is being blamed for a fire that ripped through a Lombard garage over the weekend.
A firefighter was taken to the hospital Monday morning from the scene of a fire on the city's West Side.
Two people were found dead inside a vacant building that caught fire Friday night on the Northwest Side, authorities said. Two firefighters also suffered minor injuries.
Explosions and heavy flames rocked the skies in North Chicago overnight.
An elderly man from rural Will County died Wednesday, after being overcome by flames while working in his yard.
Firefighters spent almost three hours putting out a fire that erupted at a two-story brick office building early Monday in west suburban Downers Grove.
Six horses -- including the grandson of legendary Triple Crown Winner Secretariat -- were killed in a stable fire over the weekend in Round Lake.
It took firefighters in the northwest suburbs nearly six hours Saturday to put out a brush fire that was started by improperly discarded smoking materials and fueled by high winds and dry grass.
A smoky fire started above the train tracks at Union Station Saturday afternoon.
A man is dead and his mother was seriously injured after a fire in a five-story apartment building in the Dunning neighborhood early Saturday, fire officials said.
A car slammed into a fire squad company on the city's West Side, as the company raced to the scene of a fire 2 1/2 miles away.
A firefighter was injured battling a blaze that caused more than $200,000 damage Tuesday afternoon in northwest suburban St. Charles.
The resident of an apartment in far north suburban Zion was killed in a fire in his apartment early Saturday morning.
An off-duty deputy fire chief came to the rescue of an Evanston family last week when he noticed their house was on fire and he ran up to get them out safely.
A firefighter was injured overnight when a fire broke out in the Far South Side's Washington Heights neighborhood.
The smell of burned plastic remained in the air on the Southwest Side at dawn Monday, after an extra-alarm fire ripped through a recycling plant.
Sixteen people were displaced Thursday morning when a fire broke out on the south edge of the Logan Square neighborhood.
A fire broke out overnight in a high-rise building in the Uptown neighborhood.
Two people were hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after they became trapped inside a West Rogers Park apartment building during a fire.
