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Woman Who Lost Home, 2 Dogs In Fire Grateful For Community Support - Algonquin-Lake In The Hills, IL - More than $7,700 has been raised for Alesha Wright, a woman who lost everything in a Thanksgiving Day blaze.

Two dogs died in an Algonquin townhouse fire on Thanksgiving, despite firefighters efforts to revive them, officials said.

A firefighter was taken to the hospital for a minor injury after Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District crews responded Tuesday morning to a fire at a home under construction in Algonquin.

A 19-year-old man is improving after suffering serious, life-threatening injuries when concrete slabs shifted on a trailer and crushed him in the cab of his truck in Lake in the Hills, fire officials said.

A man was killed in a single-vehicle crash Wednesday evening in Lake in the Hills, the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District deputy chief said.