Some residents have returned to devastated neighborhoods in eastern Washington state to find their homes leveled by wildfires that erupted across a parched landscape over the weekend.
A Chicago Fire Department member died during a training exercise on the city's North Side, CFD said Thursday.
Chopper 7 was over the scene as firefighters extinguished a car fire Thursday in Skokie.
A firefighter is being hailed as a hero after risking his life to pull a woman from a burning SUV.
The massive fire destroyed the 1.2-million-square-foot warehouse and paper products inside, causing an estimated $500 million in damage.
Jacob Bogdan told police that he "has problems with firefighters" and that he carried an ax for protection from them, court documents say.