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On June 11, 2023, [1] a tanker truck carrying gasoline caught fire beneath the overpass that carries Interstate 95 (I-95) at the Pennsylvania Route 73 (PA 73, Cottman Avenue) interchange in the Tacony neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia.
The building was a three-story rowhouse that had been split into two apartments and operated by the Philadelphia Housing Authority.It had one fire extinguisher in a shared entryway on the first floor; however as neither the city's building codes nor PHA policy require additional measures for rental units that size, there were initially no other safety measures.
In the early morning of June 21, 2019, a fire and multiple explosions occurred at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A release of hydrocarbons and hydrofluoric acid in the refinery's alkylation unit caused a ground-hugging vapor cloud which rapidly ignited, leading to three separate explosions minutes apart from each other.
One firefighter has died after being trapped in a building that caught fire in Philadelphia and then collapsed early Saturday, fire officials said. The fallen firefighter was not immediately ...
A firefighter died after becoming trapped in the rubble of a burned-out building that collapsed in Philadelphia on Saturday shortly after it caught fire. A firefighter died after becoming trapped ...
A firefighter died and five other were rescued after a burned building collapsed near Philadelphia Saturday morning. Firefighter killed in total building collapse near Philadelphia, 5 others ...
5 January – 2022 Philadelphia apartment fire (Pennsylvania), killed 12. [330] 9 January – 2022 Bronx apartment fire in New York City, killed at least 17. [331]
A "disgruntled former employee" opened fire inside a linen rental and laundry business near Philadelphia on Wednesday, killing at least two people and wounding three others, authorities said ...