Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical “Belfast,� a black-and-white family drama about the Northern Ireland city in the tumult of the late 1960s, on Saturday won the Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award, a telling indicator of Academy Awards chances. The festival’s top honor, voted on by festivalgoers at TIFF, is widely viewed as an Oscar harbinger.

Murphysboro Fire Chief Steve McBride says the fire department responds to at least two chimney fires a year.