Three children rescued from apartment amid smoke, fire

CHAMPAIGN – Firefighters rescued a 14-year-old boy and two younger children from an apartment where food on a stove caught fire early Sunday in Champaign.

Crews were dispatched after both an automatic alarm, and a call from a resident in an apartment below noticing a smoke smell, to 2415 N. Neil St., C, at 1:43 a.m. Sunday, according to a Champaign Fire Department report.

Also on this date

• YouTube co-founder tells grads to be persistent, take risks
• Couple sees 6th child graduate from university
• Urbana School Board meeting to highlight art by students
• Seat-belt enforcement patrols begin May 21
• Several Champaign bars 'not going back'
• Two boards seeking replacement
• Damage from fire leaves Carmargo residents without home
• Danville trustee plans quiet start to term
• Burglaries, thefts reported
• Obituaries

» More