Live from center city in philadelphia. This is fox 29 news at 10 00. Right now at 10 00. Blue skies at the jersey shore, darkened by smoke homes in Wildwood Crest. Go up in flames near and far, people from miles around knew something terrible was happening. Grabbed phones and starting snapping pictures and taking videos. People were flocking to see what was going on. Im im iain page. The good news, no one is hurt. Joan pileggi got the story from Wildwood Crest a unsettling end to the weekend in Wildwood Crest, a multialarm fire breaks out an explosion occurs and two homes are destroyed. This video tells the story. Shows the aerial view of this double house fair. As the drone hovered above. Dozens of firefighters from Wildwood Crest and neighboring companies were on the ground. Local residents watching in fear. We were worried about we didnt know if people were actually still in the house or not. I saw black smoke coming out and then there was bright orange flame and chuck ran over and
Dozens of south philly residents. Gas leak to do forced them to you. Im iain page im lucy nolan. It took utility crews hours to fix the 45 homes. Sabina kuriakose live in south philly right now. Reporter pgw is still on the scene here, so far, the Fire Department has cleared out. They tell us the gas leak is under control. The crews right now still working to fix that main. Again, 45 homes, two city blocks had to be evacuated for several hours this afternoon. Sunday evening danger in the air in south philly. Hours long gas leak forced the evacuation of 45 homes. Spread out across two city blocks on christian street. Residents running out in their bare feet as gas gushed into the air we had in power. Reporter it was just after 4 00 when emergency crews got word. A contractor doing work in the basement of one of the row homes had struck and ruptured a gas line. Prompting a huge response Fire Department 11 trucks and nearly 50 firefighters closing off several blocks. Peco quickly cut powe