Kansas City

The Kansas City Police Department, which responded to the blaze in the 7200 block of North Avalon Street, identified the victims as 10-year-old Chace Freeman, 4-year-old Achilles Hardy and 2-year-old Maxwell Hardy.

David Pittaway, 66, was taken to a hospital on Friday afternoon after he was hit by a car traveling in the southbound lane of I-35.

The fire engine was responding to a structure fire and had entered the intersection against a red light, with its lights and siren working.

The department's proposed contract with Local 42 would end a practice that often excluded Black firefighters from choice assignments at busy stations.

Black firefighters were frequently moved into one fire station, often passed over for promotions and were not actively recruited to work for a department serving a racially diverse city.

The trial is testing competing evidence and conflicting testimony between Harris and Unified Government officials.

Police and firefighters worked together to extinguish the fire.

Dozens of calls reporting a working fire.

Union leaders raised concerns about increased emergency response times "due to poor decisions and bad policy."

Investigation detailed decades of systemic racism and sexism tolerated by KCFD and City Hall officials.