Firefighters were battling a massive fire at a scrapyard in Joliet on Friday afternoon. The fire was reported before 4 p.m.

Flames were already shooting through the roof of a house Saturday in Hawthorn Woods when firefighters arrived. Because the neighborhood has no fire hydrants, firefighters had to bring water with them.

Firefighter John Anderson, 50, is paralyzed from the waist down after a large object fell on him last month at a fire.

Flames and plumes of smoke shot into the air overnight in Chicago Heights as two separate house fires drew a large emergency response and spread to multiple homes on the same block. The fire began ...

Lithium-ion batteries, which power many everyday devices, have the potential to cause serious harm or death if they are flawed, and the Chicago Fire Department is now tracking these fires due to ...

Two Chicago police officers were assaulted with a fire extinguisher while in their patrol car; they were treated on scene.

Commanding Fire Marshal for the Chicago Fire Department said. Lithium-ion battery fires are happening across the globe regularly. A large explosion on October 30 rocked a lithium ion battery ...

Amid an autumnal heat spell sweeping large parts of the nation, rare red-flag warnings have been issued for Chicago and ...

Fire crews from 22 Illinois agencies fought a raging fire at Tri-Star Cabinet & Top Co. in New Lenox, Illinois, a south suburb about an hour from Chicago ... Oct. 17 and saw "large flames and ...