At least 13 people have been hospitalized after an accident involving a CTA bus and at least two other vehicles Saturday morning. According to Chicago fire officials, firefighters and paramedics were called to the intersection of 79th Street and Damen Saturday morning following the crash. Officials say at least eight patients were transported in red (serious-to-critical) condition to multiple area hospitals. Another patient was transported in yellow (fair-to-serious) condition to Comer's Children's Hospital, while four other patients were transported in green (good-to-fair) condition to area hospitals.  

A family of four was displaced over the weekend after a fire broke out in a home in Crest Hill. In a news release, Lockport Township Fire Department said the fire was reported at 2:17 a.m. on Saturday. By the time firefighters arrived, heavy flames were visible from the rear of the home. The release stated the homes' residents — two adults and two children — were home at the time of the fire. They were alerted to the blaze by a neighbor pounding their door. The fire department said the family was able to safely evacuate from the home and no one was injured. The Red Cross arrived to help the family with their immediate needs. The blaze was classified as a Full Still, officials said, so additional crews were brought in from Homer, New Lenox and Romeoville to support  

More than a dozen cats and dogs were rescued from a house fire in Elgin Sunday morning. The blaze broke out at the home in the 1000 block of Polly Court at 8:31 a.m., and when firefighters arrived at the scene, there was smoke and coming from the house, according to a news release from the Elgin Fire Department. The homeowner told fire officials all residents were safely out of the home, but there were still several cats and dogs inside. The blaze was put out within 15 minutes, and fire crews were able to safely get more than a dozen pets out of the home, according to the news release. No one was injured, and the blaze remains under investigation.  

A shared contract to hire firefighters jointly is in the works among six area municipalities that are struggling to find and retain firefighters. If approved, the estimated $405,847 annual contract would staff two full-time, EMS-trained firefighters to serve the neighboring towns and villages of Walworth, Sharon and Darien around the clock. The proposed contract begins on Jan. 1, 2021 and continues for three years. Mark Ruosch, president of the village of Sharon, said all of the municipalities have had trouble finding or retaining new firefighters, and often do not have flexibility in their budgets to pay for full-time additions. The Village of Sharon has no full-time fire department staff and operates only with volunteers who are paid either hourly or per call. Recently the village has had difficulty finding volunteers to fill vacant spots.  

VIDEO: The Macomb County Prosecutor's Office announced Friday that a Fraser woman has been charged with setting a car on fire after video shows her apparently filling the SUV with gasoline and then lighting it, only to have it explode in her face. Sydney Parham, 26, was arrested on arson charges after police said she set the car on fire on Wednesday. The fire department and deputies were called to the San Remo Apartments on Union Lake Road for a car fire on Wednesday around 8 a.m. Video shot from across the parking lot shows a woman, identified by deputies as Parham, filling the back seat with what looks like gasoline, reaching in to ignite it with what looks like a stick lighter, and then the fire explodes in her face, sending her backward onto the pavement next to the SUV. The video was uploaded to YouTube by user ppv_tahoe. The Macomb County Sheriff's office confirmed the video is the same incident that Parham was charged in.  

Ann Jerome got to see her son for a brief moment before he was flown to Syracuse with injuries critical enough to make his survival expectancy unclear. She was able to touch his hand, then hear him say he was sorry. It was around 4 p.m. on Tuesday when the Parishville Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to a scene where a person was having difficulty breathing. Nicholas D. Jerome, a 30-year-old assistant chief and EMT who has been with the Parishville department for 12 years, was driving his truck to the fire station before heading out on the call. On his way, his emergency lights activated, Mr. Jerome was approaching an intersection on Catherine Street when a vehicle began crossing. He swerved to avoid the vehicle and lost control, exiting the right side of the road and striking a telephone pole before crashing into a tree on the driver's side. Witnesses later said there was a person mowing a lawn that he also avoided. Mr. Jerome would later say he never lost consciousness.  

PHOTOS: As the Indianapolis Fire Department was finishing a pre-planned training exercise Saturday on Geist Reservoir, conservationists with the Department of Natural Resources asked them to help search for a missing prosthetic leg. That leg belonged to Amy Gillum. Her family was out on their boat and when she went to take off her prosthetic leg to get in the water, it slipped and fell in. Three divers with IFD spent 20 minutes each in zero visibility attempting to locate the leg. "I was sitting there thinking, ‘What am I going to do? How am I going to get off the boat?' This is my life, and I never had that feeling of, ‘I am not walking unless I get this,'" Gillum said. After almost an hour of searching, the last diver was doing his final pass when he found it. It was located 20 feet down and 100 yards from shore.  

Late-July 1910 saw the Harbor beset by fires, not particularly unusual during the summer in small timber towns. It was the massive holocaust in Hoquiam on July 22, 1910 that killed two and injured many more that held the headlines when the substantial, picturesque four-story Hotel Hoquiam was reduced to rubble in an early morning blaze. Cosmopolis – Fire was discovered about four o'clock this morning in a one-story frame building on Main street, owned by the Grays Harbor Commercial Co., and occupied as a bowling alley and cigar store. The fire department was quickly on the scene after the alarm was given, and succeeded in confining the flames to the building in which they originated. The building and contents are almost a total loss, and the amount of insurance, if any, is unknown. Hoquiam – Damages to the extent of $5,000 was done to the city hall here today when fire broke in the attic of the building, threatening its destruction.