Two people were seriously injured in a fire on the Northwest Side Monday morning, the Chicago Fire Department said. The fire broke out at about 4:30 a.m. in a commercial building with apartments above it in the 3500-block of West Montrose Avenue. Two people were transported in serious condition to Swedish Hospital, CFD said. A third person was treated on the scene and declined transport to a hospital. The cause of the fire is under investigation. It is not known how many people have been displaced.  

VIDEO/PHOTO: Gibson City firefighters responded to a field fire that quickly got out of control on Sunday afternoon. The fire happened about three miles north of Gibson City just after noon. Firefighters from the Gibson City and Sullivant Township Fire Protection Districts responded to put out the flames and stop it from spreading further. The fire was controlled by around 1 p.m., with firefighters staying on the scene an hour after to monitor hotspots. Gibson City Fire Chief Bruce Kallal told WCIA they believe the cause of the fire was some garbage that was burning in the field. No one was hurt. Central Illinois is under an elevated fire risk on Sunday due to a drop in humidity and higher gusts of wind. Several fire departments across the area have urged residents not to burn, and warned farmers to be extra careful when harvesting as there is an increased potential for field fires.  

VIDEO: Flames and smoke were seen coming from a plane that made a hard landing at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon. Frontier Flight 1326 landed in Las Vegas around 3:40 p.m. after "The pilots detected smoke and declared an emergency," a spokesperson for Frontier Airlines confirmed to CBS News. The aircraft landed safely and all passengers and crew were evacuated. No injuries were reported and the passengers were bussed to the terminal. The flight left San Diego at 1:51 p.m. and landed in Las Vegas at 3:37 p.m., according to Flight Aware. Video posted to social media showed flames and smoke billowing from underneath the plane as it landed at Reid Internation Airport. Fire crews were seen on the runway fighting the fire as smoke continued to fill the surrounding area.  

VIDEOS: The Elk River overflowed due to heavy rain from Hurricane Helene, leading to significant flooding that swept away the Elk Mills Poga Volunteer Fire Department (VFD) station and one of its fire trucks. Fire Chief Michael Walsh said members of the VFD were already responding to emergency calls when the station started flooding. "They were actually out on a few tree calls and different things, and then it just kept getting worse and worse," Walsh said. "And then they got back and they tried to get all the trucks out and take them over to the store where it's a little higher ground. And they actually got them all out but one. And that's when it took the fire department away, when it took the last truck." Walsh said gear was also lost in the flood, but the other four fire trucks only received a little water damage.  

VIDEO: The New Orleans Fire Department is being troubled with what officials are calling an "epidemic" of thefts involving Fire Department Connections, or FDCs, located on commercial buildings in and around the Central Business District and French Quarter. According to the NOFD, the FDCs allow response crews to connect to the standpipe and sprinkler systems in high-rise buildings and other commercial structures. The NOFD says the missing connections, which are made of brass and presumably sold for scrap, could "possibly delay" or "completely prohibit" crews from supplementing water pressure to a building in the event of a fire-related emergency. Officials are asking all commercial building managers and maintenance engineers to inspect their buildings' FDCs for missing caps and fittings.  

PHOTOS: A firefighter from Aurora who had previously set the state record for the heaviest pumpkin has beat that record with another pumpkin weighing over one ton. Brad Bledsoe, a fire medic with Aurora Fire Rescue, broke the state record with a pumpkin that weighed 1,955 pounds late last month. The next weekend, another grower presented a pumpkin that was 21 pounds heavier. But on Saturday, one of his home-grown pumpkins, named Winifred Sanderson (a nod to the popular Halloween film "Hocus Pocus"), became the first in Colorado history to weigh over one ton. The Great Pumpkin Commonwealth weighed the pumpkin at 2,083 pounds at a Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off at Nick's Garden Center and Farm Market in Aurora. "I really wanted to be the first person in Colorado to grow a one-ton pumpkin," said Bledsoe.  

VIDEO: Life-threatening storm surges are expected to hit Florida's Gulf Coast this week with the arrival of Hurricane Milton, which was upgraded early Monday into a Category 4 hurricane over the southern Gulf of Mexico. The storm first strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane by 7 a.m. and by 9 a.m. ET rapidly intensified into a Category 4, the National Hurricane Center said. Data from Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicated Milton has estimated maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. The storm is forecast to make landfall Wednesday evening in Florida, which along with the wider southeastern United States continues to recover from the impact of Hurricane Helene. Widespread evacuation orders are likely across Florida. As many as 15 million people are under flood watches across the Florida Peninsula and 11 million are at risk for tropical tornadoes tomorrow and Wednesday.