A photograph of firefighters folding an American flag outside a fire-damaged Libertyville home turned heads on social media Wednesday. The scene unfolded Tuesday — just one day after Americans celebrated the country's independence — when a fire started at a house in the 500 block of Fairhill Road about 2 p.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune

A D.C. firefighter is under investigation for inflammatory posts he made on Facebook in response to the fatal police shooting of a 37-year-old black man in Louisiana. Sources told FOX 5’s Paul Wagner that D.C. police were informed about the posts made Wednesday on the Facebook page of firefighter Norman Brooks and reported it to D.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fox5dc.com

A 43-year-old Chicago firefighter died Tuesday, nearly a month after he was struck by a minivan in a hit-and-run crash in the North Side Rogers Park neighborhood. On June 12, Lorenzo Douglas was outside of his parked vehicle about 7:30 p.m. when a minivan going north in the 6500 block of North Ashland moved into the southbound lanes and hit him, his vehicle and two other parked vehicles, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abc7chicago.com

A homeless man suffered life-threatening injuries in downtown San Diego Wednesday morning in what police say is the fourth in a series of grisly attacks that has already left two homeless men dead and another severely injured. Arson investigators were dispatched to 900 block of State Street around 5 a.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fox5sandiego.com

More than 500,000 balancing scooters — better known as hoverboards, though they do no hovering — are being recalled because of the risk of fire or explosions. The devices were extremely popular gifts this past holiday season. Online, they were hits in viral dance videos ... and in less-impressive videos of people falling off their new toys.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NPR