Fire In Philly 2022. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A large house fire in Philadelphia early Wednesday caused fatalities, according to authorities, who declined to say how many people died. He added that eight other residents had managed to escape the building.
Click here to get the fox news app. Firefighters at the scene of a fire in a residential building in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia on Wednesday. The fire appeared to be out with ladders leaning against the corner building about three hours after the fire began.
Philadelphia firefighters work at the scene of a deadly row house fire, Wednesday, Jan.
PHILADELPHIA -- Thirteen people are dead after a large house fire broke out in Philadelphia early Wednesday morning, sources told our sister station WPVI.
Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy told reporters it was one of the worst fires he had ever seen. "We plan on making sure that this tremendous loss of life did not happen in vain," he said on Wednesday. The Philadelphia Fire Department said it responded to a fire on Wednesday morning in the Fairmount neighborhood, and spent almost an hour bringing it under control. Philadelphia firefighters work at the scene of a deadly row house fire, on Wednesday in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia.