Firefighter Treated For Injuries After Champaign Apartment Fire

Firefighters respond to multi-family home apartments in the 800 block of West Church Street in Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN – A firefighter is being treated for minor injuries after responding to an apartment fire in Champaign overnight.

Fire crews arrived at a multi-family home Friday at 1:10 a.m. in the 800 block of West Church Street.

The department says it extinguished a fire in a second-floor unit. The resident of the apartment was not home at the time and was displaced by the fire.

There’s no word yet on the cause or how much damage the fire caused.

A press release from the department says a firefighter was treated on scene and taken to the hospital for minor injuries. No other details were given.

Reginald Hardwick

Reginald Hardwick is the News & Public Affairs Director at Illinois Public Media. He oversees daily newscasts and online stories. He also manages The 21st Show, a live, weekday talk show that airs on six NPR stations throughout Illinois. He is the executive producer of IPM's annual environmental TV special "State of Change." And he is the co-creator of Illinois Soul, IPM's Black-focused audio service that launched in February 2024. Before arriving at IPM in 2019, he served as News Director at WKAR in East Lansing and spent 17 years as a TV news producer and manager at KXAS, the NBC-owned station in Dallas/Fort Worth. Reginald is the recipient of three Edward R. Murrow regional awards, seven regional Emmy awards, and multiple honors from the National Association of Black Journalists. Born in Vietnam, Reginald grew up in Colorado and is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado. Email: rh14@illinois.edu Twitter: @RNewsIPM