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FARGO— Firefighters helped evacuate most people an apartment building that filled with smoke early Wednesday, September 6. Firefighters first responded to an apartment building at 1502 Gateway Circle S. in Fargo shortly after 1 a.m. for reports of heavy smoke. Once fire crews arrived they helped evacuate the people inside on all three floors of the building. Some people living on the third

A crash involving multiple vehicles — including a semi-truck carrying ammonia — in South Central Illinois has killed “multiple people” and prompted the evacuation of parts of an Effingham County village, authorities said Saturday morning. The incident happened Friday night on Route 40 east of Teutopolis, just before 9 p.m. local time, Effingham County Sheriff Paul Kuhns told reporters during a

A semi-truck hauling toxic anhydrous ammonia crashed and rolled into a ditch late Friday in Illinois, leaving multiple people dead, forcing locals to flee “terribly dangerous air conditions” and sparking a federal investigation, officials said Saturday. Multiple vehicles including the tanker crashed around 9:25 p.m. Friday on U.S. Highway 40 near Teutopolis, a town of some 1,600 people about

A wildfire burning near Paradise forced evacuations for locals on Friday evening. The River Road East Fire is burning roughly 500 acres just east of Plains. Residents in Paradise and surrounding areas are being evacuated by Sanders County Sheriff's deputies, according to a post from the Sanders County Sheriff's Office. Call went out to residents and deputies knocked on doors to get people out