Fire News

At approximately 8:20 a.m., the steeple of what was the Salvation and Deliverance Ministries International Church at 1540 N. Spaulding Ave., in Humboldt Park, was in flames.

Two hook and ladders and two squad trucks [equivalent to police SWAT vans] along with other trucks, vehicles and an ambulance from the Chicago Fire Department (CFD) rolled up on the

Plumes of black smoke rose from flames in large fire at General Iron scrap yard at Marcey and Cortland, where a hazmat level 1 fire is expected to burn for hours,

A fire at the Regal Cinemas City North Stadium 14 movie theater, late Friday night, caused an evacuation of movie goers as multiple Chicago Fire Department vehicles swarmed the area around 10 p.m.

A 6:31 a.m. call on Thurs., Apr. 24, to the Chicago Fire Department was for a pin-in incident at Division and Noble Streets. Engine 30 from Haddon and Ashland responded. 

Nearly half of all home heating related fires occur between the months of December and February, according to the National Fire Safety Association. Fire places, space heaters and chimneys caused 67 home fires in Illinois last year.

Flames were licking their way from under the lid of a dumpster and eventually along the backwall of a Western Ave. building just north of Belden Ave. in Bucktown, Monday evening after 8:30 p.m., when a neighbor stopped and called 911. 

Four were rescued from an 8 a.m. fire in the 2600 west block of North Ave. Nov. 30, according to Larry Langford, Chicago Fire Department's Director of Media Affairs and Communications.

Chicago Fire Department battles massive fire