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This long running dispute broke out more than two years ago, when Firefighters Local 22 pressed in court to compel the Nutter administration to fill open captain and lieutenant vacancies.
Police are investigating a suspicious fire that forced more than a dozen people from their homes overnight in South Philadelphia.
The American Red Cross and the Philadelphia Fire Department are partnering in an effort to eliminate fire deaths in the city.
The Philadelphia fire department has been rocked in the last six months by a sudden spike in the number of employees who have taken their own life.
Eyewitness News has obtained a memo over safety concerns sent to members of the Philadelphia Fire Department.
Authorities say a man who was found inside his home after a fire in North Philadelphia appears to have been assaulted.
"Controlled chaos would be an understatement," said police inspector Mike McCarrick, who runs the police department's East Division, where the derailment occurred.
Flames broke out around 6 a.m. at a three-story building at Kensington Avenue and East Willard Street.
The fire department and L&I will perform joint inspections of commercial and industrial properties larger than 15,000 square feet.
Darrell Clarke says the money is better spent on aging police and fire stations.
A child was injured after a fire broke out inside one home and then spread to two others in North Philadelphia.
"I want to thank the Air Force for being a partner," fire commissioner Derrick Sawyer said today, "because you could have chosen another fire department."
The Philadelphia Fire Department's controversial policy of temporary fire station closures -- known as brownouts -- dominated the discussion this past week during City Council's first chance to question the new Fire Commissioner.
They're the first voices you hear when you dial 911.
Flames broke out around 3:30 a.m. along the 100 block of West Sharpnack Street.
It happened just after 4:30 p.m. at 3342 North Front Street in the Fairhill section of the city.
Newsradio was nearly 10 years old and KYW reporters had experienced their share of fire coverage and more. But nothing prepared us for the inferno infused year of 1975.
Flames broke out around 9 a.m. Saturday inside the kitchen of a home in the 100 block of Jamestown Street.
The fire department says a rogue employee sold patient information to a theft ring in 2012, but the theft did not come to light until February of this year.
Flames broke out around 2:30 a.m. inside Denise's Delicacies in the 2900 block of North 22nd Street at Cambria Street.
Flames broke out around 2:30 a.m. Saturday in the 2400 block of Westmoreland Street in the city's Tioga section.
Two Philadelphia firefighters were rushed to the hospital Monday morning after a ladder came in contact with a power line and they were shocked.
Flames broke out around 1:30 a.m. Monday at the home in the 3500 block of Brookview Road in the city's Millbrook neighborhood.
Flames broke out shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday in the 1500 block of West Cayuga Street.
A Philadelphia Fire Department report finds flaws in the department's response to a December house fire that claimed the life of Joyce Craig, the city's first female firefighter killed in line of duty.
