Gunfire early Sunday morning rocked a section of the West Rogers Park neighborhood that has long been known as a quiet place to live. As CBS 2's Jeremy Ross reported, the bullets went flying in all directions on California Avenue between Rosemont and Granville avenues. Booze bottles and trash littered West Ridge Plaza on the west side of California Avenue on Sunday. The scene tells a story. The debris supports what neighbors describe as a party – with some perhaps drinking shots and then firing shots. "Like 30 rounds, like, ‘Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!'" said Joe Pedro. That is what Pedro said woke him up around 6:30 a.m. Sunday. The gunfire startled other neighbors as well, including firefighters working at Engine Company 71 at 6239 N. California Ave. Bullet holes and evidence markers were seen at their building. A source told CBS 2 some Chicago Fire Department first responders were outside at the time and had to duck for cover.  

Two families are displaced after their apartments were deemed uninhabitable following a fire that caused about $125,000 worth of damage at Mason Townhouse Suites in DeKalb Sunday morning. According to a news release from the DeKalb Fire Department, crews responded to reports of a fire in a residential building in the 200 block of Deerpath Lane East shortly after 10 a.m. Sunday morning. In total, nine people were displaced from two apartment units, and the American Red Cross is assisting them with accommodations. The fire is believed to have started in the living room on the second floor of a single apartment unit. No injuries were reported, said Fire Chief Jeff McMaster. Upon arrival, firefighters encountered heavy fire and a large volume of smoke coming from one unit on the four-unit complex at Mason Townhomes. The occupants of the complex had already evacuated themselves, the release states.  

Three people were injured in a fire Saturday night in far south suburban Richton Park. Flames were spotted at a house on the 22700 block of Ridgeway Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Fire Department officials said the people inside were able to get out before firefighters arrived, but crews rescued two cats and a dog from the house. Fire crews from four neighboring suburbs helped extinguish the flames. Three people were taken to the hospital, but their conditions were not available late Saturday night.  

Woodstock's Matt Thuma has been a regular at the Crystal Lake Half Marathon since the 13.1-mile race, formerly held at Lippold Park, became a staple of the running community. The 54-year-old Crystal Lake firefighter may not place among the top finishers, but that's for a good reason. Unlike other runners, Thuma, who got his start in long-distance races about 20 years ago, crosses the finish line wearing more than 42 pounds of gear: boots, a turnout coat and pants, gloves, a helmet and air tank. "By the end of the race, it's a lot closer to 50 pounds," the 1984 Woodstock graduate said. Thuma, who tries to do three or four long-distance events a year, ran his 20th Crystal Lake Half Marathon Sunday morning. He's done them all in his full firefighter uniform. Asked why he does it, Thuma replied, "Probably because I'm a bigger idiot than I thought."  

Peoria firefighters were called around 2 p.m. Sunday to the 4000 block of Patricia on reports of a fire. Upon arrival, heavy smoke and fire was seen coming from an attached garage. Fire Battalion Chief Rick Morgan said the fire was mostly contained to the garage, but the home sustained significant smoke damage. No one was inside the home at the time of the fire. One firefighter did suffer a small laceration to the chin while on duty. The Red Cross was called to assist three residents of the home. A Fire Investigator said the cause of the blaze was discarded embers from a fire pit.  

VIDEO: An off-duty New York City firefighter watched flames engulf his own home on Sunday but that didn't stop him from doing his duty and rescuing his neighbors -- all without any fire protective gear. The blaze broke out shortly before midnight inside Peter Orlowski's home in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn, authorities said. More than 200 firefighters responded to the scene and battled the fire for four hours as it spread into a neighboring home at 74th Street and 13th Avenue. Orlowski, who has been a firefighter in Brooklyn for five years, was among those who jumped into action, video from the scene showed. He helped save his parents, his sister and his dog, and as the flames began to spread next door, Orlowski went inside and carried out his elderly neighbor.  

A rural fire chief and several of her volunteer firefighters in Oregon lost their homes and station house to the Holiday Farm Fire as they battled the blaze over the last few days. Upper McKenzie Rural Fire Chief Christiana Rainbow Plews is among thousands of first responders who have been combating the fires that have ravaged the West Coast for weeks. She got a call Monday night about a downed power line, and the resulting brush fire spread faster than anything she had ever seen. Within an hour or two of having left her home to respond, Plews said, she had issued a level 3 evacuation order — for residents to leave immediately — for the McKenzie River area in Lane County in western Oregon. Her family left their home about 20 miles downriver from the fire's origins, able to bring a few of the animals on their property.  

Gunfire early Sunday morning rocked a section of the West Rogers Park neighborhood that has long been known as a quiet place to live. As CBS 2's Jeremy Ross reported, the bullets went flying in all directions on California Avenue between Rosemont and Granville avenues. Booze bottles and trash littered West Ridge Plaza on the west side of California Avenue on Sunday. The scene tells a story. The debris supports what neighbors describe as a party – with some perhaps drinking shots and then firing shots. "Like 30 rounds, like, ‘Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!'" said Joe Pedro. That is what Pedro said woke him up around 6:30 a.m. Sunday. The gunfire startled other neighbors as well, including firefighters working at Engine Company 71 at 6239 N. California Ave. Bullet holes and evidence markers were seen at their building. A source told CBS 2 some Chicago Fire Department first responders were outside at the time and had to duck for cover.  

Cleveland Fire Fighters Union President Tim Lally and the Ohio Association of Professional Fire Fighters hopes a new study on dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center attack will provide some answers for those still suffering 19 years later. The study, which started on Sept. 1, is being conducted by Dr. Loren Wold, Assistant Dean of biological research at The Ohio State College of Nursing, and Dr. Mitchell Cohen at New York University. Dr. Wold said his team is exposing lab rats to re-aerosolized dust from the World Trade Center collapse, hoping it will lead to treatments for thousands of first responders who are now suffering from heart and lung disease, as well as symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. "We want to help to determine some of the long term effects, and how we can help them therapeutically," Dr. Wold said.  

Bernie Bierman rubbed his smoke-reddened eyes and managed a grin of relief. It was just after 4 a.m. on Sept. 24, 1936, and the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers football coach was standing across the street from the Florence Hotel in downtown Missoula as it went up in flames. Bierman was out his watch, hat, shaving kit and key ring, all left back upstairs in his haste to escape. Now came word that all 43 of his players, coaches and support staff were unharmed and accounted for. Safe too were the sportswriters and VIPs in the travel party, including the mayor and a state senator from Minneapolis. "Some of the boys lost their personal belongings and a few have tender feet from running around on the pavement but they are all safe, and that's all that matters to me," the coach said. There is no modern equivalent to those Gophers. For one thing, no big-time college football team since has won a third consecutive national championship as they were on their way to doing that season.