Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live at the scene in darby tonight. Chris . Reporter lucy, the fire has been put out. Its been placed under control. Fire crews still remain here in Darby Township. Unfortunately word trickling down through this night in it community a neighborhood institution was the vick of this fatal fire. His name has got officially been released but neighbors here know who he is. An elderly man we are told the body of that man was found in his cluttered basement less than an hour ago. Heard the loud boom. Reporter neighbors on jackson street in Darby Township heard the explosion just after 7 00 oclock and quickly learned which house on the block was burning. She just said, mommy, mommy theres a fire. I went outside and she said mommy its mr. Dukes house. He watched me while i agreed up. He was just like my god dad. Reporter firefighters arrived to the home engulfed in flames. Its believed gas was at least partially responsible for the fire. So bad at one point 10 homes we
Serio and we are still talking about snow. That is right just not every where but we like to say it because it freaks you out the when you hear that word, snow. In the Lehigh Valley and poconos you could see snow before the the day is through but were already way too mild for snow here in philadelphia. We will have rain in our forecast, 44 degrees right the now with a 7mile an hour wind. Relative humidity, we will watch that now that it is spring 45 percent. Sunrise at 6 47 this morning. Nothing on radar, nothing on satellite, so we have a clear sky right now which means we will start out with some sunshine but here comes this fast moving system that is way away from frustrates, barely entering Cleveland Ohio right now but would i say by lunchtime start looking for some rain drops around here. It will be a afternoon and evening event that rain. 53 degrees that High Temperature later today and tonight will be chillier with the le of 35. Rain will continue overnight with 35 degrees it sh
Today. Sue, bob kelly comes back into our lives after a day off, what is going on seriously. We wont see snow, it will be too warm for snow but up toward pocono mountains up there towards allentown. Are you seeing snow in allentown. Later. Later today. It doesnt start until after 12 00 noon. Right around nap time. Yes. What time is your nap time. We will sleep through it. Tail of two weather days. It is, start with the first half. The first tallies sunny to start. The it would be beautiful beginning to the day and a rainy owned for us and a snowy end for folks north and west. That is when weather drama begins. Bus stop buddy is geared up later on in the day with the umbrella but it will be sun toy start. Pretty soon too with sunrise at 6 47. 44 degrees in the the city with 7 miles an hour wind, and nothing just yet on radar but it is not that far away. The this is kind of a fast moving system. It is already spreading rain in the western part of the state, and if you are up in erie penn
Institution was the vick of this fatal fire. His name has got officially been released but neighbors here know who he is. An elderly man we are told the body of that man was found in his cluttered basement less than an hour ago. Heard the loud boom. Reporter neighbors on jackson street in Darby Township heard the explosion just after 7 00 oclock and quickly learned which house on the block was burning. She just said, mommy, mommy theres a fire. I went outside and she said mommy its mr. Dukes house. He watched me while i agreed up. He was just like my god dad. Reporter firefighters arrived to the home engulfed in flames. Its believed gas was at least partially responsible for the fire. So bad at one point 10 homes were evacuated and firefighters had to be pushed back. Heavy smoke heavy flames. Um it was to the point where we had to leave the structure because of the heavy intense flames. Reporter neighbors say the man they know as mr. Duke was a scrap metal collector. Outside the home w
Yes. It is, but it is already tuesday. Advantage of having a monday off, a short workweek and i think a short week for a lot of folks to with the who will take coming up here. A lot of the schools have days off, spring break we will call that between this week and next week. We could see some light volume depending upon where you begin and end your trip but were all in a stop here on the tacony palmyra bridge. That bridge opening at the top of the 5 00 oclock hour. Traffic stopped on both side. Use the the betsy ross bridge as the alternate and then north on i95 crews are still about us here, north bound, down to one lane and heading in to towards girard avenue. They say five or 5 30 or so and hopefully they will stick to that f not i will cut their coffee and dough he nut supply so they do have to get out of there. I95 north working your way up toward northeast philadelphia, be ready to hit the the brakes from the center city to betsy. Detours in conshohocken from an overnight fire fi