The Fire are seeking to build a 30-acre practice facility on the Near West Side, with the soccer team entering discussions with Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Housing Authority
The Chicago Fire’s search for a new, 30-acre training facility in the city has taken the soccer club to the Near West Side after previous plans to build in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood fell through.
chicagotribune.com80-year-old man charged with arson in Arlington Heights apartment fire
Arlington Heights Police and Fire departments responded to the fire about 12:20 a.m. Jan. 7 in the 400 block of West Rand Road. Police arrested the man after he made comments about the fire, the police department said in a news release.
chicagotribune.com1 dead after jumping from 19th floor to escape Mumbai fire
At least one person died after jumping from the 19th floor to escape a fire that engulfed a 61-story luxury apartment building in Mumbai in western India on Friday, a fire official said. Television images showed heavy black smoke billowing into the sky from the 19th floor apartment on Curry Road in south Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital. Kailash Aggarwal, the building owner, said there are 400 apartments in the building and all residents were accounted for.
news.yahoo.comA scheduling conflict at Soldier Field with the Bears forces the Chicago Fire to return to Bridgeview for 1 match. Here’s the hefty price tag.
Sharing Soldier Field with the Bears comes with a price for the Chicago Fire. Here’s how much they have to pay Bridgeview to return to SeatGeek Stadium for one match.
chicagotribune.com‘The fire moved around it’: success story in Oregon fuels calls for prescribed burns
Oregon’s Bootleg fire has offered new evidence that Indigenous techniques can change how megafires behave Smoke from the Bootleg fire billows near Sycan Marsh in Oregon. Photograph: US Forest Service/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock The Bootleg fire stampeded through southern Oregon so fiercely that it spit up thunderclouds. But when the flames approached the Sycan Marsh Preserve, a 30,000-acre wetland thick with ponderosa pines, something incredible happened. The flames weakened and the fire sl
news.yahoo.comWildfire in western Greece forces village, beach evacuations
A wildfire that broke out Saturday in western Greece forced the evacuation of four villages and people on a beach by the Fire Service, the Coast Guard and private boats, authorities said. The fire was in a mountain forest 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of Patras, Greece's third-largest city, Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said late Saturday. Aided by strong winds, the fire raced down the slopes and threatened seaside villages.
news.yahoo.comEgypt officials: Fire at juvenile detention kills 6 children
A fire broke out Thursday at a juvenile detention center in Egypt's capital of Cairo, killing at least six children, officials said. The officials said the fire followed a fist-fight between two children in one ward at the facility, located in the city's Marj district. More than two dozen other children were injured, they said.
news.yahoo.com‘Unattended cooking’ blamed for blaze that left child, 2 adults injured on Southwest Side, fire department says
The fire occurred in the 4300 block of West Ford City Drive in the Ford City neighborhood, according to the Fire Department. The fire was contained to one unit on the first floor and was suspected to have started in the kitchen due to cooking left unattended.
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