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.

Video shows as firefighters battled an apartment building blaze amid the frigid temperatures on Tuesday night.

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.