7 injured after fire rips through multiple Kensington rowhomes
Seven people, including three children, were hurt during a rowhome fire in the Kensington section of Philadelphia Monday evening, fire department officials said.
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Seven people, including three children, were hurt during a rowhome fire in the Kensington section of Philadelphia Monday evening, fire department officials said.
The Philadelphia Fire Department said say no one was hurt after a large fire broke out at an apartment complex in the city's Kensington section early Sunday.
The cause of a deadly fire in Kensington on Monday morning is under investigation.
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.
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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.
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