A garbage truck exploded on Friday afternoon in northwest suburban Arlington Heights, injuring multiple first responders and sending debris flying for blocks. At around 4 p.m. the Arlington Heights ...

Garbage truck fires are never ideal, but they are usually not catastrophic. When a fire broke out on December 6 in the back of a garbage truck making its Friday rounds through the Chicago suburb of ...

Three people, of which two were police officers and one a firefighter, were injured when a garbage truck exploded in a Chicago suburb last Friday. The police officers and firefighter were responding ...