Extreme cold has settled on the Chicago area, making the job of firefighting harder than usual. Just such an example of such challenges came up Tuesday afternoon in the Pilsen neighborhood, where a fire broke out in a duplex house and sent a man to the hospital in critical condition.

Around a dozen people are displaced in the bitter cold Wednesday morning after a fire broke out at a home in Worcester, Massachusetts. Fire officials said they were first called out to Hitchcock Road around 8 a.

Extremely cold temperatures and icy conditions have been hampering first responders at the scene of a house fire Monday night in Westfield. Firefighters were called to the 500 block of East Main Street (State Road 32) around 7:40 p.