Philadelphia Fire Department 2022. Some residents were able to escape on their own, and firefighters rescued several others after cutting a hole in the building's roof. Bystanders watch as the Philadelphia Fire Department works at the scene of a deadly row house fire on Wednesday.
This is a developing story and will be updated. A fire that engulfed a house in Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood was fatal, according to the city's fire department. Some residents were able to escape on their own, and firefighters rescued several others after cutting a hole in the building's roof.
He added that eight other residents had managed to escape the building.
Philadelphia fire officials tweeted that they responded to a fire Wednesday morning surging from the second floor of a three-story row house that officials say Both police and fire officials are on location, police said, and the scene is still active despite the fire being under control, the fire department said..in an early morning fire on Wednesday in a Philadelphia row house after smoke detectors failed to go off, the Philadelphia Fire Department said.
They were able to get the fire under control in less than an hour. Multiple people were killed in a fire Wednesday morning in a house in Philadelphia's Fairmount section. Multiple fatalities have been confirmed in the fire.