E.C. fire displaces 21 people

A Tuesday afternoon fire in an apartment building in East Chicago displaced 21 people, including about 10 children.

Multiple East Chicago fires under investigation

Ted Gonzalez, of East Chicago, looks out the window of his home in the 4900 block of Homerlee on Monday morning where an early morning fire burned two garages to the ground, and damaged at least three homes and three vehicles as the fire jumped from a garage to neighboring structures.

Multiple East Chicago fires under investigation

Trash cans in the alley of the 4900 block of Homerlee appear to have been set on fire. A garage fire, far left, jumped to a house, center, and then to a neigboring garage, nearly igniting the neighboring home, top right, where five children slept overnight Monday.

Multiple East Chicago fires under investigation

Framed through the charred remains of Stephen Perez's van, East Chicago employees prepare to board up the back of a house damaged after a garage fire spread to the home and a neighboring garage. It also damaged two more houses, and destroyed three vehicles caught up in the blaze. East Chicag…

Multiple East Chicago fires under investigation

Two garages were burnt to the ground, and three homes damages in a series of fires Monday morning that kept East Chicago firefighters busy. A van owned by Stephen Perez was destroyed along with two other vehicles parked in a garage, left, off the alley in the 4900 block of Homerlee. The back…

Multiple East Chicago fires under investigation

Fanned by the wind, flames from a garage fire jumped to a house and then to a neigboring garage, nearly igniting the neighboring home where five children slept overnight. Ted Gonazalez looks out a window of a bedroom where his daughters were sleeping when the fire started in a garage nex door.

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No smoke detector in apartment where student from Gary died

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Fall home and garden checklist

In the garden:

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Moscow deaths double amid smog to 700 people a day

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Fire chars interior of Notre Dame's grotto

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