The row house fire that occurred Wednesday morning in an upscale Philadelphia neighborhood reveals the harsh conditions working class residents throughout the city face.
PHILADELPHIA－Jacuita Purifoy lost 10 family members when a fire tore through a converted three-story house in Philadelphia on Wednesday, killing 12 people in one of the United States' deadliest residential infernos in recent years.
Family said sisters Virginia Thomas, 30, and Rosalee McDonald, 33, were killed in an apartment fire Wednesday in Philadelphia that killed at least 12 people, including seven children.