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Three people, of which two were police officers and one a firefighter, were injured when a garbage truck exploded in a Chicago suburb last Friday.. The police officers and firefighter were ...
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km 2) of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. [3]
The 2014 Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center fire was an incident in the United States involving arson [1] at an air traffic control facility in Aurora, Illinois [2] (also known as "Chicago Center"); [3] the incident caused close to 2,000 airline flights to be grounded. [4]
A brush fire has spread to nearly 3,000 acres in Los Angeles. The flames are being fueled by a severe wind storm across Southern California. Watch live: Pacific Palisades fire burns nearly 3,000 ...
The Chicago Union Stock Yards fire of 1934 was the second-most destructive fire in the city's history, after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, in terms of property damage and buildings lost. [1] The Union Stock Yards of Chicago , Illinois in the United States were, at the time, the commercial butchering and meatpacking center of the Midwest .
You can find an interactive map of evacuation orders and warnings related to the Palisades Fire on the Cal Fire website. The below map was current, as of 2:30 p.m. PT. The below map was current ...
This category includes articles on disasters in the United States State of Illinois ... Disasters in Chicago (1 C, 6 P) Coal mining disasters in Illinois (6 P)
Firefighting and recovery efforts continue in the Los Angeles area, where devastating fires have killing at least 28 people, destroyed more than 12,000 structures and prompted evacuation orders ...