Philadelphia fire: 12 dead, including 8 children, after Fairmount rowhome fire
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Authorities say 12 people, including eight children, have died as a result of Wednesday morning's fire in Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood. The property was owned, operated, and inspected by the Philadelphia Housing Authority.
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Firefighters arrived around 6:40 a.m. and fought for about 50 minutes to control the blaze on the second floor of the three-story row house in the city's Fairmount neighborhood, owned by the city's public housing authority.
The 4 smoke alarms in the building did not appear to have been working, fire officials said. It is the deadliest single fire in Philadelphia in at least a century.
"Losing so many kids is just devastating," Mayor Jim Kenney said. Officials said that there were four smoke detectors in the at a three-story rowhouse but that none were operating.
Thirteen people -- including seven children -- died Wednesday morning in a fire at a three-story row home in Philadelphia that was converted into two apartments, officials said.
A fire ripped through a rowhome in Philadelphia Jan. 5, killing 13 people in two apartments. Seven of the victims were children. The fire was the fifth-worst residential fire since 1980, and neighbors, firefighters and officials were overcome with grief at the scene.
By Mark Morales and Taylor Romine, CNN Thirteen people — including seven children — died in a fire at a three-story row home in Philadelphia on Wednesday morning, a deputy fire commissioner said. Philadelphia police described the address as a home converted into two apartments in the city’s Fairmoun…
By Mark Morales and Taylor Romine, CNN Thirteen people died in Philadelphia Wednesday morning in a fire that broke out in a three-story home that was converted into apartments, according to a law enforcement official.
Flames roared through a Philadelphia rowhouse early Wednesday morning, leaving at least 13 people dead and two others in critical condition, police sources
At least 13 people, including seven children, died early Wednesday when a quick-moving fire tore through a Philadelphia rowhome, crowded with 26 people in two apartments owned by the city’s public housing authority.
At least 13 people died in Philadelphia Wednesday morning in a fire that broke out in a three-story home that was converted into apartments, according to a law enforcement official. Follow here for the latest.
At least 13 people died as a fire tore through a Philadelphia rowhome converted into apartments in the Fairmount neighborhood early Wednesday, sources confirmed to NBC10 News.
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