A Chicago firefighter was injured while battling a two-alarm blaze Saturday in McKinley Park on the South Side. The fire was reported shortly after midnight on the second floor of a vacant two-story commercial building in the 3700 block of South Ashland Avenue, according to Chicago Fire Department Cmdr. Frank Velez. Crews arrived to find heavy fire on the second…

Police have evacuated a historic Paris train station because a fire is raging nearby

Thick black smoke billowed across Lake Shore Drive from a nearby fire, temporarily shutting down the roadway.

A pit bull has become a four-legged hero credited with saving a family of four after a house fire started in New Jersey.

A home in west suburban Naperville was deemed uninhabitable after a fire broke out early Tuesday in its basement, displacing three people. Fire crews responded to the blaze about 6:39 a.m. in the 800 block of Proud Clarion Court near Gartner Road, the Naperville Fire Dept. said in a statement. Three occupants of the home escaped on their own, according…

Two people, including a 5-year-old boy, were killed and two others injured in a deadly house fire in far southwest suburban Minooka early Friday, authorities said. The fire broke out around 12:45 a.m. in a home in the 24500 block of South Bell Road, according to Fire Chief John Petrakis with the Channahon Fire Protection District. “What makes it difficult…

A woman in her 60s was airlifted from a fire in serious condition Thursday after crews found her in a home with “hoarder-like conditions” in northwest suburban Algonquin. Crews were dispatched to a fire about 3 p.m. in the first block of Alice Lane, according to a statement from the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District. Firefighters removed the…

VIDEO OF THE AFTERMATH OF A FIRE THAT BROKE OUT IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF TUESDAY WHICH CLAIMED THE LIVES OF A GRANDFATHER AND A 5 YEAR OLD BOY.

RICARDO BARNEROS REMEMBERS HIS CO WORKER AND FRIEND DAVID COSTELLANOS, WHO ALONG WITH HIS 5 YEAR OLD GRANDSON, DIED TRAGICALLY IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS IN HOUSE FIRE IN CICERO.

Officials in Orland Park believe a sprinkler system helped save a group of critters from a fire that broke out at a pet store Monday in the southwest suburb.

The location of a fire at a Loop nail shop is raising suspicion, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

Some 85,000 artifacts that tell the story of the Chinese migration to the United States may have been lost in a fire that struck a building in the heart of Manhattan’s Chinatown, a museum official said Friday. The president of the Museum of Chinese in America told The New York Times that most of the thousands of historic and artistic items...

Three Americans died Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in the Snowy Monaro region of Australia’s southern New South Wales state, officials said.

Three Americans died Thursday when their aerial water tanker crashed as they were fighting fires in southeastern Australia.

The death of a New York City philanthropist whose body was found with stab wounds when firefighters responded to a raging blaze at a Fort Greene building Monday has been ruled a homicide.

At least 10 residents were displaced after an apartment fire in Austin Sunday morning. Chicago police said the fire broke out just before 1:30 a.m. in the 5400 block of W. Iowa Street. It began on the third floor and ultimately spread to multiple units, officials said. No one was injured, and the cause of the fire remains unknown. The…

Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday.

Weeks after an Alaska man’s remote cabin burned down, he was rescued by Alaska State Troopers who found him by a makeshift shelter with an SOS signal stamped in the snow.

Owners of a kangaroo rescue in Australia were forced to flee when fire ripped through the area. They returned not knowing what happened to the kangaroos.

Australia’s government on Monday said it was willing to pay “whatever it takes” to help communities recover from deadly wildfires that have ravaged the country.