13 dead, including 7 children, in Philadelphia house fire

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By RON TODT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A large house fire in Philadelphia early Wednesday killed 13 people, including seven children, and sent two people to hospitals, fire officials said.

Officials said at a news conference later in the morning that there were four smoke detectors in the building but that none were operating.

Firefighters and police responded to the fire at a three-story rowhouse in the city’s Fairmount neighborhood around 6:40 a.m. and found flames coming from the second-floor windows, fire officials said. The house had been converted into two apartments, police said.

The fire was brought under control after less than an hour. WPVI-TV reported that at least one child was seen taken out on a stretcher.



Bystanders watch as the Philadelphia fire department works at the scene of a deadly row house fire in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Firefighters and police responded to the fatal fire at a three-story rowhouse in the city's Fairmount neighborhood around 6:40 a.m. and found flames coming from the second-floor windows, fire officials said. (Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)


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[Walleye]

1. Horrible tragedy. Just watching it on the local Philadelphia news

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. Why

were the smoke detectors not working? That's on the landlord. I smell lawsuits coming.

[former9thward]

5. If the batteries had been removed by the tenants, that is not on the landlord.

That is very common because the detectors can go off with smoky cooking so tenants remove the batteries to prevent that from happening.

[Polybius]

7. But you put them back in after you finish cooking

Who would leave them out?

[former9thward]

8. People are not going to go back and forth everytime they cook.

That is not the real world.

[Polybius]

9. I did

No way would I go to sleep with the batteries out. I left it on the table so I wouldn't forget to put them back.

[cactusfractal]

3. Damn. To kill that many Philly kids at once...

...usually involves the cops and a bomb.

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Exactly what I was thinking

Did the cops bomb them?

[pansypoo53219]

6. decades ago, milwaukee had a bad fire. i think it was almost twice dead, many children.

we happened to see the funeral procession.