VIDEO: The Peoria Fire Department has released its list of significant events from 2023. The department responded to 488 structure fires, which is down from 546 in 2022. The report states there were 255 cooking-related fires. Also in the report were 87 vehicle fires. There were 76 passenger vehicle fires, eight road freight or transport fires, two camper fires, and two off-road equipment fires. There were 32 civilian injuries and three civilian deaths due to fires throughout the year. There was a total of $11,485,834 in property loss due to fire. Most calls came in on Fridays and the busiest times for the fire department were 11 a.m. to noon. The fire department installed 188 smoke alarms and 72 carbon monoxide alarms installed in 2023. There were a total of 21,267 incidents recorded by the department in 2023. EMS saw 16,615 of the calls.  

VIDEO: Three Belleville firefighters were taken to the hospital Tuesday morning after their fire truck was involved in a crash and flipped onto its side. It all happened at Route 161 and Carlyle Avenue, right by Belleville East High School. The good news is that nobody was seriously hurt. The bad news is that there is significant damage to both the fire truck and the Toyota 4Runner, which was also involved in the crash. This all took place around 6:00 a.m. The Deputy Chief of the Belleville Fire Department, Curt Lougeay, told FOX 2 that his truck was east on Carlyle with its lights and sirens, heading to a fire at a nearby Burger King. Lougeay says the 4Runner was at the intersection with 161 and Carlyle and somehow the crash happened from there.  

PHOTOS: A massive 2-alarm fire destroyed a commercial building in a matter of minutes in Downtown San Antonio near the Bexar County Pretrial Services building. The fire started just before 7 a.m. Wednesday at a huge commercial building off Buena Vista Street near South Comal Street. Aerial footage shows the building fully engulfed in flames with the roof and several walls collapsing. Officials said huge building was mostly empty, but one small business, Cool King, was operating in the facility. One worker was inside the building at the time the fire started, but did make it out safely. Crews used several ladder trucks to battle this massive fire that completely engulfed this large building. After about 30 minutes, firefighters were able to get the blaze under control. Several cars that were parked near the building were destroyed as well.  

VIDEO: Three Belleville firefighters were taken to the hospital Tuesday morning after their fire truck was involved in a crash and flipped onto its side. It all happened at Route 161 and Carlyle Avenue, right by Belleville East High School. The good news is that nobody was seriously hurt. The bad news is that there is significant damage to both the fire truck and the Toyota 4Runner, which was also involved in the crash. This all took place around 6:00 a.m. The Deputy Chief of the Belleville Fire Department, Curt Lougeay, told FOX 2 that his truck was east on Carlyle with its lights and sirens, heading to a fire at a nearby Burger King. Lougeay says the 4Runner was at the intersection with 161 and Carlyle and somehow the crash happened from there.  

VIDEO: There's new information about July's deadly cargo ship fire in Port Newark, as the Coast Guard previewed Wednesday's public hearing. Firefighters 45-year-old Augusto Acabou and 49-year-old Wayne Brooks Jr. were killed when a massive fire overtook an Italian cargo ship in Port Newark on July 5, 2023. Five other firefighters were injured. The Coast Guard on Tuesday previewed a hearing to determine what went wrong. "The purpose of the hearing is to meticulously examine the circumstances surrounding the causes of the fire and the subsequent events that led to the deaths of firefighters Acabou and Brooks so that we can help prevent future incidents and make the shipping and port community safer," said Commander Christian J. Barger, lead investigating officer for the Grande Costa D'Avorio fire.  

PHOTOS: On Jan. 10, 1962, all the talk was about bitter cold. At 3 p.m., with the temperature only 4 degrees, Carson Crocker was cutting a customer's hair at 702 Chouteau Avenue. Police officer Kenneth Jones tried to stay warm in his patrol car one block away. Major Nesbit worked inside the Ralston Purina feed mill that towered over the neighborhood just south of downtown. The quiet chill was shattered at 3:20 p.m., when a grain-dust explosion ripped through the Ralston mill, at Seventh and Gratiot streets. The blast blew open Crocker's front door, showered airborne debris around Jones' car and threw Nesbit across the room. "I heard this 'whoom' and there was fire everywhere," Nesbit said. "I crawled until I could see and then I cut out of there."