Fire Damages South Street Restaurant
Fire officials are investigating the cause of an early morning blaze that damaged a popular South Street restaurant.
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Fire officials are investigating the cause of an early morning blaze that damaged a popular South Street restaurant.
Philadelphia fire officials are investigating the cause of an early morning blaze that ripped through a row home.
Philadelphia fire comissioner Lloyd Ayers says grill fires are the #1 type of fires his department sees in the month of July.
Hundreds of people were evacuated from a center city Philadelphia office building on Thursday morning after an electrical fire erupted in a utility closet.
A Philadelphia city councilman says staffing shortages in the Philadelphia Fire Department could be readily solved if the mayor let dozens of firefighters who are due to retire stay an extra year.
Despite a steady rain in Philadelphia, dozens of police officers, firefighters, and family members of those killed in the line of duty gathered for the city's annual "living flame" memorial on Wednesday in Franklin Square.
A deal offered by the Philadelphia fire commissioner may have settled the matter of the shirtless firefighter.
A Philadelphia firefighter who struck a pose for a charity calendar is causing a raging controversy within the Philadelphia Fire Department.
A retired Philadelphia police officer was killed and three firefighters were injured after flames tore through a Northern Liberties row home late Tuesday evening. One of the firefighters is in critical condition.
Tuesday was the kickoff to the 25th annual "Battle of The Badges" that pits Philadelphia police officers against firefighters to see which service can lose the most weight in 13 weeks.
On the morning of February 16th, Mahlon Graham and his sister were walking to St. Francis de Sales School in West Philadelphia when they saw smoke coming from a nearby assisted living facility and a woman at a window screaming for help.
The Nutter Administration told City Council members Tuesday that the controversial policy of temporary closures of fire stations is not going to change, even with an increase in the Fire Department budget.
One person was taken to the hospital after being injured in a house fire early Friday morning. The fire started at about 4:30 a.m. inside a home in the 1500 block of Emily Street in South Philadelphia.
The investigation continues into an apartment fire Tuesday morning in Philadelphia's Lawncrest neighborhood that claimed two lives and injured a third person.
Mayor Michael Nutter's new budget includes extra cash for Fire Department overtime. However, that does not mean he is changing his policy of rolling, temporary closures of fire stations.
Mayor Michael Nutter was delivering his new budget on Thursday morning to City Council, unveiling a hold-the-line spending plan.
Ten firefighters were injured while battling a high-rise fire in North Philadelphia early Wednesday morning. Three residents were also injured in the blaze.
A one-alarm North Philadelphia row house fire in the 2700 block of Seltzer Street has claimed the lives of a man, a woman, and a six-month old infant girl
The Philadelphia Fire Department has earned bragging rights for the upcoming year after winning its 2010 weight loss competition against the Philadelphia Police Department.
Two children were killed in a fire in the city's Olney section, and now an official from the firefighters' union is questioning if Philadelphia's cost-cutting "brownouts" of fire companies played a role.
Wednesday marks the 20th anniversary of one of the worst fires in Philadelphia history.
Three people remain in critical condition after a gas main explosion that killed one utility worker and forced dozens from their homes in Northeast Philadelphia Tuesday evening.
PGW spokesman Doug Oliver says the Philadelphia fire marshal is leading the investigation and the natural gas utility is assisting.
A woman and her three children were killed in a fast-moving house fire in Olney early Thursday morning.
As fire officials continue to investigate the cause of the deadly fire that took the lives of a Feltonville mother and her three children, Philadelphia's fire commissioner wants to make sure everyone that every home has working smoke alarms.
