Family members of five people who died in a Fairmount fire are suing PHA over the incident. The lawsuit claims the housing authority knew the home was overcrowded. The building did not have a fire escape or working smoke detectors installed.
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The Fairmount fire happened last January in a two-unit Philadelphia Housing Authority row home, with battery-powered smoke alarms that weren’t operating the day of the fire, no sprinkler system, and no fire escape. Nine of the victims were children.
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PHILADELPHIA – 12 people have died following a fire inside of a Philadelphia Housing Authority rowhome that officials say had no working smoke detectors. Eight children lost their lives in the Wednesday morning blaze — the city’s deadliest single fire in more than a century. While the cause of the fire remains under investigation, sources tell FOX […]
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BUTLER, Pa. (KDKA) – A woman had to scramble to safety when a fire broke out in her apartment building in Butler County. A large part of the apartment building on West Cunningham Street is in ashes from an early morning fire in the city of Butler. Butler Fire Chief Chris Switala says one woman […]
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PATERSON — Two of the city’s bravest lived up to their nickname Sunday morning when they climbed a fire escape ladder to the third floor of a building to rescue a man and his daughter trapped by flames. The fire broke out shortly after 9 a.m. on the second floor of a Fair Street apartment building, said […]
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Exclusive: Philadelphia Licenses And Inspections To Enact Stricter Standards For Fire Escape Safety Amid Controversy By Crystal CranmoreDecember 12, 2019 at 5:45 pmFiled Under:Local, Local TV, Philadelphia Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia News PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Questions by CBS3 have prompted Philadelphia Licenses and Inspections to enact stricter standards to ensure fire escapes are safe and capable of helping residents […]
Read more...Raw video captures Harrisburg crews battling a blaze that damaged five homes and injured a firefighter following a first-floor fall. SEAN SAURO NOVEMBER 18, 2019 THE PATRIOT-NEWS, HARRISBURG, PA. A firefighter who fell from a first-floor rooftop while battling a Saturday night blaze that damaged five houses in Harrisburg is now at home recovering from […]
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Residents are questioning the safety of the building after two people were critically injured when a fire escape balcony collapsed at an apartment complex in West Philadelphia on Tuesday morning. It happened at Lexington Apartments on the 4200 block of Chester Avenue, shortly after 10 a.m. According to police, two men were […]
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