A fully engulfed outbuilding in the rural countryside lit up the Yorkville-area early morning darkness on Nov. 26.

The fire crew responded around 11:21 a.m. Friday to a fire inside a business in the 1500 block of North Bridge Street.

The Plainfield Fire Protection District participates in the annual holiday fire safety campaign “Keep the Wreath Red” to raise awareness of fire prevention during the holiday season.

The Bristol Kendall Fire District responded around 2:40 p.m. to a structure fire in the 5000 block of Danielle Lane.

These channels will serve as the primary dispatch channels for all police departments in Grundy County beginning Dec. 1, 2025.

The Troy Township Catastrophic Assistance program provides short-term financial assistance to households whose homes have been damaged and deemed uninhabitable.

A person was taken to the hospital by helicopter after a vehicle crashed into a tree early Sunday near Huntley.

Lake Consolidated Emergency Communications (LakeComm) is officially operational at the Regional Operations and Communications Facility in Libertyville, after the successful completion of a two-week consolidation of 911 and public safety communications services.

Oswego and Plainfield fire protection districts are among 112 fire departments and districts receiving funds from Illinois American Water’s Firefighter Grant Program.

Fire departments, fire districts across the country are onboarding to the new National Emergency Reporting System.

Here are some of the places to donate food to help those in need and where to find food distribution programs in Will County. Lockport fire volunteers will be at Jewel on Sunday

The Lockport Township Fire Protection District Board met Wednesday and discussed the police firing range that was planned for the site but had its funding eliminated.

The Lockport Township Fire Protection District officially broke ground on its new training facility in Crest Hill on Monday morning, Oct. 20, 2025. The new center is located along Division Street near Stateville Correctional Center.

The Oswego Fire Protection District and the Oswego Police Department hosted a safety campus open house on Oct. 11, 2025.

The 44th Kankakee County Fallen Firefighter Memorial Service honored the ultimate sacrifice made by the area's eight firefighters and their families on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025.

The 44th Kankakee County Fallen Firefighter Memorial Service honored the ultimate sacrifice made by the area's eight firefighters and their families on Friday morning near the memorial wall on the Kankakee County Courthouse lawn.

Multiple vehicles in the garage were found to be engulfed in flames, according to the Little Rock-Fox Fire Protection District.

Will County sheriff's deputies responded to reports of a shooting in the 1400 block of Elgin Avenue in Joliet Township on Tuesday.

There are several ways in which the 9/11 terrorist attacks will be marked in the Kane County area for this year’s 24th anniversary.

The Woodstock Fire/Rescue District hosted the first-ever McHenry County Sept. 11 Memorial Stair Climb Sunday morning at the McHenry County Fairgrounds in Woodstock. The event mirrored the number of steps firefighters responding to the terrorist attack climbed in the World Trade Center. A day earlier, a Ride to Remember was hosted by the Woodstock Harley-Davidson.

There are several ways in which the 9/11 terrorist attacks will be marked in the McHenry County area for this year’s 24th anniversary.

A Woodstock police officer is credited with rescuing a woman in a wheelchair from house fire Tuesday evening.

The Lockport Township Fire Protection District extinguished a house fire in the 500 block of Stephanie Drive Tuesday afternoon.

Lockport Township Fire Protection District’s John O’Connor was awarded the honor for fire districts or departments with populations over 25,000. LTFPD serves a population of more than 85,000 residents.

The Wonder Lake Fire Protection District Board named a new fire chief Tuesday, replacing Mike Weber who retired last week.

As the first K-9 to hold this position in the district, Willie’s gentle and approachable demeanor will provide comfort during times of stress, trauma and recovery.

A dog died and six residents were displaced in a fire that broke out in an attached garage of a home Friday afternoon near Marengo, officials reported.

Mike Weber, the Wonder Lake Fire Protection District Chief, will walk out at the end of his 48-year service at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22.

Five departments battled the late afternoon blaze southeast of Oregon.

A rural Oregon home was significantly damaged Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, after a fire started in an attached garage. Oregon firefighters responded to 540 E. Elizabeth Road at approximately 4:40 p.m. and saw flames coming from the roof of the one-level, ranch home. No injuries were reported.

Around 7 p.m. Monday, fire crews responded to a reported structure fire in the 16300 block of West Caraway Court in Lockport during the severe thunderstorms.

Illinois Senate Bill 1446 is a bipartisan measure to ensure the tracking of the manner of death of all Illinois firefighters, including suicide and various types of cancer.

The City of Lockport will host it's second annual Fire Fest on Aug. 9 to commemorate the anniversary of the 1895 fire that destroyed a large portion of the city's downtown.

Three National Night Out events – organized by the Ogle County Sheriff’s Department, Oregon Police Department and Mt. Morris Police Department – were held in Byron, Oregon, and Mt. Morris on Tuesday evening, Aug. 5, 2025.

Douglas Road between Route 34 and Wolf Road will be closed to thru traffic from approximately 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., according to a news release from the Oswego Police Department. Funeral procession and related vehicles will be allowed through the closure.

A young teenager was injured after the mini motorcycle he was operating collided with a car in Plainfield, police said

Firefighters responded to a barn engulfed in flames over the weekend in Yorkville. First indications suggested the fire started from a propane tank explosion.

A woodworking shop and it contents are considered a total loss following a fire on Dean Street in rural Woodstock, the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District reported.

Six horses were killed when an overnight ravaged a barn near Harvard.

Assembled Bristol Kendall Fire Protection District crews who trained under Assistant Chief Fairfield and the younger crew members who would continue feeling his presence on the training grounds, applauded the plaque inscribed, “Timothy Fairfield Memorial Training Center.”

A Crest Hill home has been left uninhabitable after a structure fire swept through the building Tuesday. Though the home's inhabitants were able to evacuate safely.

Shorewood students this month collaborated on a Brave Bags initiative to support individuals with sensory or communication disabilities during emergencies.

Firefighters from Wilmington and Bolingbrook departments were among those honored for going “above and beyond their duties” at annual state of Illinois' Fallen Firefighter Memorial and Medal of Honor Ceremony.

Saint Joseph Medical Center hosted an event to honor nurses and first responders in celebration of Nurses Week on Wednesday.

Dan Wagner, the Huntley Fire Protection District’s deputy chief of operations, will become the next fire chief. He's a third-generation fire chief.

Fire damaged a Plainfield home Wednesday night. The family was able to safely escape, according to the Plainfield Fire Protection District.

Firefighters responded to two house fires within minutes of each other Monday afternoon in Huntley and Algonquin, one resulting in serious burn injuries of one resident.

Woodstock’s Old Courthouse and surrounding Square lights will be turning red the evening of May 3 in honor of fallen firefighters.

Leonard Younge, 54, died from a fire on Wednesday in Joliet Township that is under investigation by the Illinois State Fire Marshal’s Office.

Residents of a single-family home are displaced and three pets were saved after a fire broke out in the kitchen of a Lake in the Hills home Tuesday evening, officials report.