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The city has added another deadly house fire to the yearly total. A small one-alarm bedroom fire in the 2000 block of South Frazier Street claimed the life of an unidentified man inside his row home just before midnight.
Thirteen firefighters and one police officer lost their lives in the line of duty during the Friedlander Leather Remnants factory fire on December 21st and 22nd, 1910, after walls collapsed on first responders.
Philadelphia police were investigating the death of a 45-year-old man at a shipyard in south Philadelphia on Sunday night.
The Philadelphia fire marshal is investigating a three-alarm blaze that gutted a warehouse and forced the evacuation of six families on Sunday.
The Penn's Landing Blue Cross River Rink opened for business on Friday. And plenty of people were there to give the ice a whirl.
A fire department spokesman said Motorola was trying to fix a glitch affecting screens in the radio room but added that all radios and portable phones in trucks were working.
One hundred years ago this winter, a devastating fire at a Philadelphia leather goods company near 3rd and Girard took the lives of 13 firefighters and one Philadelphia police officer.
The long night began early Monday evening with a fatal one-alarm rowhouse fire in the 3200 block of North 32nd Street, in North Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Firefighters Union is pursuing an appeal of a State Labor Relations Board ruling that said paramedics are not members.
