Jessica boyington, thank you. Overnight flames ripped through a home leaving one person dead and a firefighter injured. And we have heard another person jumped out of a window of the burning home. Matt delucia is joining us from the scene. What are you learning . Reporter the fire is out, but the question is whether or not foul play was involved. This is the scene in the 1800 block of east clementine street in east kensington. Some of the firefighters and police are still working here at the scene at the moment, but the fire started at 10 40 last night with heavy flames initially on the first floor of this home. Firefighters found a man dead on the second floor. Now before they got here, another man jumped out of a secondfloor window. He is at temple hospital right now in stable condition. A firefighter was also treated for heatrelated issues but is expected to be okay. The cause of the fire is still unknown, but the philly Police Crime Scene unit is here along with homicide investigat
In with about four and a half inches of rainfall Hopewell Township three and threequarters and laurel bend with nearly 4inches of rain this afternoon. Technically a Flash Flood Watch remains in effect for philadelphia to the south until midnight but with the rain moving out more than likely this watch will expire a little earlier than expected this evening t well chat more about that accuweather forecast with some brighter days ahead for the week coming up in just a little bit. Sharrie. Adam thank you. Some of the strongest storms have been to our south. This is a picture of a car that are witnesses say flipped in a parking lat in maryland. Experts are working to determine if a tornado touched down. There are a number of downed trees that have damaged property and also knocked out power lines. Be sure to track todays rain and storms with the 6abc app. The images that we have there from across the region. The 6abc app is a Free Download for our mobile device. The search is on this after
Flood warnings in and effect. Those are the areas in the red, those for south of dover also Cumberland County, a large section including millville and we also have some aerial flood watches and warnings in effect Atlantic City and wildwood and also north of dover so basically just be very careful if you live in these areas, do not drive through flooded roads. These are some of the storm reports. Millville reporting flooded roads also middletown township, carmel reporting close to 5inches of rain. In Hopewell Township close to 4inches and laurel bend in delaware close to 4inches of rain. I think we all need several days of dry weather and ive got some pretty good news coming in the fiveday forecast. Back to you, sharrie. Sounds good cecily. Thank you. Track todays rain and storms with the 6abc app. Get prepared with our seven day and hourly forecasts along with storm tracker6 radar imagery matches images across the region. A south jersey woman made her first appearance in court today ac
This afternoon as the school board tries to come up with some kind of solution here, vern. Reporter trouble in the class appear to be ahead brian at this point the School Districts solution appears to be to cut off funding and revoke the schools license. Its the only Charter School among more than 80 city wide that that currently faces revocation of its charter. This is the ninth and sedgley building the Charter School has been occupying for years but now the landlord wants to evict them as the charter created in 04 continues drowning drowning in hundreds of dollars of red ink owing money all over town. All classes k through eight were shut down a week early in june without warning or ceremony. Teachers tell me they have resigned en masse and found new teaching posts elsewhere. Were protecting their identities. Now were going on three paychecks we have not been paid. Reporter what have the officials told you so far. Theyve told us nothing. Reporter we were unable to contact anyone on t
Casings there in the parking lot. Police still on the scene, still investigating and about to provide some Additional Information to the media who is, who are gathered here but what we know at this point is that one man was injured, shot multiple times. One suspect is in custody. There was a s. W. A. T. Team that went through this store looking for a possible second suspect. At this point we have no word whether there was. What we do know, though, is that the situation does appear to be under control. One person being treated at this point at aria torresdale. Reporting live in the northeast, jeff chirico channel6 action news. Thank you jeff. More breaking news right here out of the crescentville section of philadelphia. Chopper6hd captured huge flames shooting out of the Auto Repair Shop in the 5500 block of tabor avenue. That fire reached two alarms but in the last hour firefighters were able to get it under control. No injuries reported in crescentville. Fire crews still on the scene