Im walt your perez. Big story is four alarm fire in old city this morning. Action News Reporter anni m mark joins us live from third and chest nut where people with forced to flee from safety, annie. Reporter walter, sarah just mentioned hot spots you can see right behind me still an active scene when Fire Fighters are still working on this. It has been under control for hours but fire crew is still remain out here traffic around this area of olde city right now number of roads are closed because they are still working on this luckily, nobody was injury, in this fire. Just after 3 00 a. M. The four alarm blaze broke out at third and chestnut, the flames, and thick smoke force 160 people out of their apartments at 239 chestnut and guests at best western hotel. The fail fire department, responded with a 150 Fire Fighters and medics, at this point residents believed that the fire started on the top floor of the apartment building, officials are still assessing the total damage to build go
Temperatures making things worse. We saw much of the damage live on our 5 and 6 oclock newscasts. But now at 11. The sobering reality. Map this is happening in the small town of isleton. Just northeast of antioch in the delta. But, now, at 1 00, the sobering reality. Its northeast of antioch. Nbc bay area cheryl herd is on the scene. Cheryl, it must be so emotional for these families tonight. Very emotional, raj. As you said, eight homes destroyed. You can see the devastation behind me. This is like an oasis. Its surrounded by water. The volunteer firefighters got some if not all of the water, from the pond right here. But the dried grass is right out there. And thats what got these folks in trouble. The wind was blowing and the fire was just growing massively. From our chopper you could see planes moving fast. There was, like five people and trying to get all of the roots and all the palm trees, like the embers were traveling from one tree to another. 1520 mile an hour winds fuelled t
Tracy, we have traffic. Cameras at the vine, closed here. As we look up ahead there, thats where the activity starts. Closing between vine street expressway, the exit ramp, theyre diverting traffic on the eastbound side of the schuylkill expressway. It lasts from here until south street. It will last until 5 00 this morning. About another hour or so for that. The westbound side is fine right now. The p. A. Turnpike looks good. Westbound, eastbound, route 1 to valley forge, a 25minute trip at the most. Speeds are down into the 50s which is even abnormal for now. Still, its obviously still moving. Well end with mass transit. Everything on or close to schedule for amtrak, septa, new jersey transit, and patco. Breaking now, fire tears through a popular restaurant in the society hill section of philadelphia. Firefighters spent hours trying to get the flames under control. We have more live. Deanna, that restaurants been in the community for decades. Reporter it has. The owners were here wat
You just showed, that was absolutely amazing but with that said certainly starting to feel like november. We have a couple showers that will work their way through over span of the next couple days and we do have best chance for timing on that as morning goes on so stick with us for extended forecast. Just to get you outside here it is chilly, we have a frost advisory for south central, new jersey, parts of the berks , Lehigh County getting chilly so there are advisory there but many of you may walk outside the door to the need for thawed out windshield so expect that with you thankfully storm scan will likely stay from philly an southe throughout the entire day. Further north and west you travel though much better chance to see a couple showers poconos are likely to get in on that. Look at how cold, it is, we are at 27 degrees at mount pocono right now, lower 40s from philly down to the shore and wind is still calm so thankfully not adding too much to the wind chill but as you send ki
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