Lake and McHenry County Scanner
Providing breaking news as it happens in Lake & McHenry Counties in Illinois
Two people suffered from smoke inhalation after a kitchen fire at a house in Buffalo Grove late Tuesday night. The Buffalo Grove Fire Department responded at around 8:30 p.m. for a call of a kitchen fire in a home in…
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One firefighter was injured after falling through the floor at a house fire in Cary and two others were injured trying to rescue the first firefighter. The Cary Fire Protection District was called for a house fire at 206 Hickory…
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(SUN-TIMES) — A fire late Thursday that came as a thunderstorm ripped through the area left a house in Vernon Hills uninhabitable, but no one was hurt. Fire crews got to the two-story, single-family home in the 800 block of…
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(ABC7 News) — A house explosion damaged more than 50 homes and injured two people Sunday morning in Marengo in McHenry County. Crews were trying to determine Sunday night whether a gas leak triggered the fiery blast that started with…
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(PATCH.COM) — A Cary family is without their home after a blaze severely damaged the residence Thursday evening, fire officials said. The Cary Fire Protection District was called to 314 Deveron Circle in Cary at about 6:21 p.m. Everybody inside…
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(PATCH.COM) — Six people were displaced following a fire at a two-story home in McHenry on Monday morning. The fire broke out at 11 a.m. at a home in the 100 block of Norman Drive in McHenry, according to a…
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(PATCH.COM) — A blaze caused $4,000 in damage to a Crystal Lake home early Thursday. Fire crews first on scene to the blaze at the two-story home in the 1500 block of Glacier Circle found flames coming from the deck,…
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