Flowing. Five people taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Many people displaced. This is the most devastating thing ive ever seen in my life. Reporter flames poured out rita grace Apartment Homes on academy road for hours. The fire started just after 4 30 and as night fell, crews were still at it. A lot of stuff is still inside. The only things i got out was the kids and the animals an few things of clothing. Crystal lives in the complex and shes not sure if anything will be there when she gets home. Horrible. Terrible. I dont really know i never been through this before. I dont know how to react it to. Reporter over 100 residents are without a home. Because the spread through the walls and extended to the third floor. At that point we start evacuating all the occupants out of the building. Reporter crews helped displaced residents get on to buses that took them to lincoln high school. Temporary shelter where many will wait for more information. Im stunned. Im speechless. I could
Residents are without a home. Because the spread through the walls and extended to the third floor. At that point we start evacuating all the occupants out of the building. Reporter crews helped displaced residents get on to buses that took them to lincoln high school. Temporary shelter where many will wait for more information. Im stunned. Im speechless. I couldnt believe it. Reporter donna lives across the street and nervously watched everything unfollow. You dont know what to feel. You dont know what to say. Its just its so sad. Reporter throughout the night the wind picked up several times making it even more difficult for an already exhausted crew. The water know will continue for the next several hours. Fire commissioner sawyer said tonight on seen to us that the fire started in the utility part of the basement. Still no official cause of that fire. Were live in northeast philadelphia, david spunt cbs3 Eyewitness News. All right david, thank you. Breaking news now. A tree topples
That wind is still blowing and blowing at a good clip that you will certainly notice it. Here in center city and every where else although skies have cleared out nicely for you you can expect to see some sunshine as well it will be just colder. We will to have talk temperatures here today and eventually, some snow, is in the forecast. Ill have details for you. All right katie. One resident calls this the most devastating thing she has seen in her life a four alarm fire tears through a northeast philadelphia Apartment Building. This morning a hundred people are searching for air place to live while investigating look into how it started. Eyewitness news News Reporter jan carabao is live at academy road this morning good morning. Reporter about a hundred people are displaced this morning out of their apartment because of this huge fire. That Apartment Building is still taped off and road are all blocked off as well so keep that in mind heading in this area of northeast philadelphia. As t
It wasnt that bad when weenies came outside. It was only in one apartment. I dont understand why its like this now. Reporter devastation and tears flowing from tara miller as she watches the Apartment Building where she lived go up in flames. They havent been able to put the fire out. They been able to put it out. Reporter fire broke out at the apartments on academy road just before 5 00 tuesday evening evening. Smoke billowed from the building as flames continue to rage for hours. Fire commissioner derek saw we are says the first sign of fire was utility room which they were able to put out. They discovered fire had spread to the walls and extended to the third floor. At that point we started evacuating all the occupants out of the building. Reporter six minutes in the fire sored from two to four alarms. Forcing crews to withdrawal. Beginning a ground attack. Across the street Saint Davids Church took in distraught residents. A lot of emotions. I cannot start to imagine what it would
The week is halfway over already. Exactly. Winter is almost fully over. Sue, what, 48 hours and counting . Winter not giving up. Well have it happen officially but it wont feel like a change of season at least not initially. So yes as chris said, the American Flag here tells the story of just how gusty those win are. So it is 34 degrees, but it feels like 24 outside. 16mile per hour sustained winds, and gust that is are even higher. Your sunrise time is 7 08. Nothing on ultimate doppler or satellite. The clear skies unable temperatures to really, really plunge overnight. So today we have those windchills in the 20s, to start, we have deceptive sunshine throughout the day. Yesterday was so slight full. We got to 68 degrees, but not today. Fortythree will be the high, brisk, blustery, with this is winds making it feel even colder than 43 degrees. So that is a last blast we hope of winter. We know how it is around here, bob kelly even after the season changes. We can never pack up those s