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
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