This coming May would have been his second anniversary with CFD, Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt said.

Fourth-generation Chicago firefighter Michael Altman, 32, died Tuesday morning, a day after he suffered critical injuries while working to extinguish a blaze in Rogers Park.

Michael Altman, a fourth-generation CFD firefighter, leaves behind a young son and a wife, who is pregnant.

A Chicago firefighter has died hours after being severely injured while fighting an apartment building fire on Chicago’s North Side, sources told NBC Chicago. The firefighter, whose identity has not ...

Chicago police are talking with a man after they announced a person of interest in the fire that claimed firefighter Michael Altman.

More than a decade after first raising alarms that the Chicago Fire Department wasn't properly tracking how quickly help was arriving on fire and medical emergency calls, the city's top watchdog has ...

A new class of 70 Chicago firefighters, EMTs and paramedics graduated from the academy in a ceremony Monday morning at Navy Pier's Aon Grand Ballroom. The Chicago Fire Department said 55 ...

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New safety concerns following Chicago's Office of Inspector General's annual audit of the Chicago Fire Department's Fire Prevention Bureau. The main issue, fire code building inspections. Inspector ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There are new findings Thursday regarding the safety of Chicago's buildings. The city's inspector general slammed the Chicago Fire Department's Fire Prevention Bureau, citing critical ...