VIDEO: Firefighters used a drone to battle a house fire that may have been caused by lightning in south suburban Orland Park. The fire chief said flames were seen on the roof of a two-story home in the 10800-block of Scarlet Drive just before 3 a.m. Wednesday. When firefighters arrived on scene they found flames spreading across the roof and through the attic.
- PUB DATE: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago

PHOTOS: Ten people were injured after a fire engine collided with a casino shuttle bus Wednesday evening. Yonkers fire engine 313 crashed into the driver's side of an Empire City Casino bus around 6 p.m. at the intersection of Kimball and Yonkers avenues. Firefighters from station 13, just a few hundred feet from the intersection, were responding to a fire alarm at 41 Maple Place when their truck hit the bus, Yonkers Fire Commissioner John Darcy said.
- PUB DATE: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News

Kyler Olson and his mother Jaime Olson said when they saw smoke coming from a hill near their home they called 911 and rushed up the hill to see what was going on. "When we got up there, there were three people (who had gotten) out of the house," said Jaime Olson. The three people who escaped were an elderly man, elderly woman and their adult son.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 7:42:16 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

A firefighter is in a fight for his life as he battles the final stages of cancer. Donovan Eckhardt has only been given weeks to live and now a community is coming together to honor and help a man who spent years helping others. Members of the Renton Fire Department gave a hero’s farewell to one of their own.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 7:38:54 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13