McHenry Township Fire Protection District

A head-on crash near Ringwood on Saturday morning sent five people to an area hospital, but all of the injuries appeared non life-threatening, a McHenry Township Fire Protection District official said.

The McHenry County coroner identified a body found in the Fox River near McHenry as a man reported missing nearly two weeks ago.

Nearly two weeks after a 28-year-old McHenry man was reported missing, police have no update on his whereabouts, police said Tuesday.

A home outside McHenry sustained minor fire and smoke damage following a deck fire Friday night, fire officials said.

A McHenry man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries during a house fire Saturday

The National Weather Service recorded a lightning strike – meaning lightning hit either the ground or something else – at 4:51 a.m. in Johnsburg, meteorologist Jake Petr said.

A former part-time McHenry firefighter and paramedic pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing from a nonprofit firefighters association and was ordered to pay back more than $41,000 in restitution and sentenced to two years of conditional discharge.

No one was injured in a fire Tuesday that left a McHenry home uninhabitable, the McHenry Township Fire Protection District said.

The McHenry Township Fire Protection District responded to a fire Saturday afternoon on 1600 block of North Park Street in McHenry for a fire in the attached garage.

McHenry Township Fire District Cheif Rudy Horist survived his own cancer and now teaches new firefighters how to avoid finding themselves with a similar diagnosis in the future.

A fire at a McHenry home started on the first floor and spread to the attic, leaving the home uninhabitable but causing no injuries, the McHenry Township Fire Protection District said.

About 80 acres of wild land burned after a fire spread from a cornfield north of McHenry, the McHenry Township Fire Protection District said.

A 40-year-old Johnsburg woman died following a single-vehicle crash that took place shortly after midnight Monday in the 5700 block of Fox Lake Road northwest of Fox Lake, the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office said.

Two people were killed in a crash in Ringwood over the weekend

A single family home and its contents were considered a total loss following Saturday morning fire on the 2400 block of North Club Road in unincorporated McHenry, fire protection district official said.