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A fire at a 150-year-old refinery complex in Philadelphia was started in a vat of butane. The blaze turned the early morning sky a bright orange and yellow and awakened startled residents with ...
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.
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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.
Ruptured elbow pipe from Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery, determined to be the root cause to the refinery's fire and explosions in June 2019. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released its final report on the incident on October 11, 2022. [1] The report stated that a corroded elbow pipe, installed in 1973, ruptured and caused the initial leak.
[4] [5] The resulting fire killed six MOVE members and five of their children, and destroyed 65 houses in the neighborhood. [6] The police bombing was strongly condemned. The MOVE survivors later filed a civil suit against the City of Philadelphia and the PPD and were awarded $1.5 million in a 1996 settlement. [7]
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.
The Department of Homeland Security, Federal Aviation Administration, FBI and the Pentagon issued a joint statement this week, saying they have uncovered nothing nefarious related to the sightings.