Hours after the fire started. Five people were hurt and crews are still on the scene tonight. Good evening im iain page. Im lucy noland. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is outside that apartment complex. Shawnette what do you see . Reporter well it has been a long day a long evening for firefighters the fire is under control but take look behind me. You can see that crews are still spraying water working on putting out some hot spots. This fire took about 30 pieces of equipment and more than 100 firefighters to tackle it. 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
And then, you can see the flash of the train screening off the tracks at over 100 miles an hour and heres similar video taken from other side of the tracks. The train now going right to left and a different angle but the fate of the train and all 243 people on board is the same. The big question now why according to ntsb, was train accelerating as it approached the curve. Why did the speed soar from 70 to 106 miles an hour. Its thursday nights and the big story. On action news tonight is the world from ntsb lead investigator that amtrak train 188 sped up for the final minute before t its catastrophic derailment. At the site tonight the train cars are gone. Amtrak is faced with repairing tracks so it can reopen the route between philadelphia and new york. Action News Reporter dann cuellar is live at the scene. Dann, it seems the questions that must now be answered have all to do with engineer brandon bostian. Reporter thats right jim brandon is now agreeing to talk to ntsb. They really
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
Proven guilty. This is more retaliation for him standing up to president obama on issues like israel. Hes denying all of the allegations. They would not take this course of action unless they had something specific to charge him with. The new jersey star ledger just wrote an editorial calling on menendez to resign. Sources say he will temporarily step down as the Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign relations committee, but as for his senate seat, well have to wait to see what he says at the press conference in newark in an hour. Live in barrington Camden County randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. Coming up at 7 00 you can watch his remarks live on the nbc 10 news app. A horse owner in philadelphia is under investigation after the spca says his animals were living in unacceptable conditions. Rosemary connors joins us from southwest philadelphia. Theres some activity right now . Reporter as you can see, a Police Officer with the spca and the owner of the horses are back out here at scene. Th