1 firefighter injured, students relocated after fire in Kensington
More than 100 Philadelphia firefighters responded to a 3-alarm fire in an industrial building in the city's Kensington section on Wednesday.
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More than 100 Philadelphia firefighters responded to a 3-alarm fire in an industrial building in the city's Kensington section on Wednesday.
A woman was killed and 23 residents are displaced following a fire that broke out in the Kensington section of Philadelphia on Friday morning, according to police.
Philadelphia Fire Department responded to the rowhome fire on the 100 block of Wishart Street in Kensington just after 1:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Officials said the fire broke out in a commercial building that was connected to several rowhomes. No one was hurt in the blaze, but multiple families were displaced early Thursday morning.
The warehouse is at West Tioga and Mascher Streets.
Jasmine Payoute reports.
No word yet on what caused the fire.
The structure partially collapsed during the fire.
It's been nearly a week since a house fire in Kensington took the lives of a father and his three boys.
The fire broke out at this three-story building around 3 a.m. Saturday on the 3100 block of Kensington Avenue.
Flames broke out just after 2 a.m. Saturday inside the Bamboo Hair Salon in the 3000 block of Kensington Avenue.
Flames broke out around 11:15 p.m. Sunday on the second floor of the home along the 3000 block of North Lee Street near Front Street.
The city has said a collapse zone was established at the site of the fatal fire, but at a City Hall news conference on Thursday, leaders of Firefighters Local 22 said their photographs indicate otherwise.
Firefighters' Union Local 22 contends that Ayers and his two top deputies were guilty of incompetence and indifference, and should resign or be suspended.
"You need to follow and make sure these funds are not delegated for anything other than to stop these brownouts, to support our firemen," said Diane Neary, whose husband Robert was killed in a warehouse fire last month in Kensington.
Philadelphia's annual remembrance for fallen heroes took on an especially somber tone as the families of two firefighters killed in the line of duty last month laid wreaths at the Living Flame memorial service.
The Kensington warehouse blaze earlier this month that claimed the lives of two Philadelphia firefighters is still having a ripple effect through city government.
The implication from a city statement shortly after the fatal fire was that the warehouse owners were huge tax deadbeats.
Philadelphia fire commissioner Lloyd Ayers says representatives from NIOSH -- the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health -- are here as part of an ongoing evaluation of dangers that firefighters face.
In a statement, the district attorney's office confirmed that it will submit evidence gathered in the April 9th fire to an investigating grand jury for review and possible charges.
The mayor says he knows the owners of the building in which two firefighters died this month had received three violation notices and never responded.
Hundreds of neighbors held a community vigil in Kensington on Sunday evening to honor the memory of two Philadelphia firefighters who were killed in a devastating warehouse fire on Monday.
Local 22 President Bill Gault says the funerals will be massive. "I expect about 2,000 to 3,000 firefighters from across the United States and Canada here and probably two hundred to three hundred pieces of apparatus."
The CBS 3 I-Team has learned the owners of the abandoned warehouse at the center of a fire that killed two Philadelphia firefighters own dozens of other properties across the city and owe the city hundreds of thousands of dollars in back real estate taxes.
The Thomas Buck building, where the fire that killed two firefighters on Monday started, is just one of about 25,000 vacant properties in Philadelphia that create safety hazards in neighborhoods.
Saturday is a blustery fall day leading up to the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel week, where snow and rain chances are possible.
Some sunshine will start the weekend but with the upper low still nearby, winds will stay quite robust, making it feel colder.
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We will see some sunshine to start the weekend but with the upper low still nearby, winds will stay quite robust with gusts to 25 mph, making it feel colder. Bill Kelly has the forecast.
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