Residents of Abington, Jenkintown and Cheltenham were ordered to shelter in place and schools were closed for the day.

If we think of fire as a part-time seasonal phenomenon, our strategies for fighting fire will continue to fail. The question isn’t whether we can live with fire but how we can live with it.

Dry, gusty conditions in Northeastern Illinois led the National Weather Service to issue a fire weather watch for the entire Chicago area Monday. The fire weather watch for Chicago comes alongside ...