Police respond to do a 911 call sunday morning around 6 15 alerting them of a fire at the sheridans home on meadow run drive. The fire was contained to the upstairs master bedroom where both john and joyce were found unresponsive. The 72 year old president of cooper hospital was dead at the scene and 69 year old wife was pronounced at the hospital. Now, three days later, the fire has been ruled arson. Cooper University Health carey leased this statement saying we are saddened and shocked by what has been reported about the death of John Sheridan and his wife joyce. Their deaths already unbelievably sad are now tragic. Our deepest condolences go out to john and joyces family for their terrible loss. Investigators say the causes of death have not yet been determined pending lab results and reiterate that this is an active investigation. Lucy . All right, thank you very much, jennifer. A busy evening were following another breaking story are the now. Secret Service Director Julia Pearson
Lucy off tonight. Lets get right out to dave kinchen live at the seen of that fire in west chester tonight. Dave . Reporter this fire left behind so much destruction take a look behind me you can see the debris and all of the sideing here. Two apartments destroyed. Many others that were damaged by this fire. In fact we spoke with the woman who made it out of that first floor apartment just in time. Skyfox flies over the seen of fire devastation at the winter brook apartments in west chester chester. A two alarm fire destroyed two units and held firefighters at bay for more than a half an hour as they took on the flames. Very fast, yes. A lot of smoke a lot of flames. Reporter penny says she was paying bills in her first floor apartment when the alarm went off upstairs. I look out and saw smoke. So iran back in and got the cat. Reporter spunky is the cats name and hes okay. It was just the two of them living there. Its a mess and my apartment is underwater. Its horrible. Fire is very sc
Fire devastation at the winter brook apartments in west chester chester. A two alarm fire destroyed two units and held firefighters at bay for more than a half an hour as they took on the flames. Very fast, yes. A lot of smoke a lot of flames. Reporter penny says she was paying bills in her first floor apartment when the alarm went off upstairs. I look out and saw smoke. So iran back in and got the cat. Reporter spunky is the cats name and hes okay. It was just the two of them living there. Its a mess and my apartment is underwater. Its horrible. Fire is very scary. My soninlaw is a volunteer firefighter. So i hear about that all the time. But its a mess. Reporter fire crews spending the evening looking for hot spots and starting their investigation. This man walks as his heart aches for his soninlaws family. They lot of everything in the upstairs unit. They lost a cat. The dog has been recovered. Just total loss. His family was not home when it started. Fire Officials Say it started o
A ten. I did. It was ten worthy. G i saw how breezy it was and thought it was is a a nine. You dont know how i agonize over this number of day. We will turn nine upside down and give you a six today. Maybe a seven because it is so mild but we have win and rain and later on, some thunderstorms. We will go with the six, 60 degrees, 13 miles an hour wind, out of the warm South Southwest and sunrise happens at 6 42. We do have a few areas of showers, right now, we have a lot of cloud cover but in chester county, montgomery maybe part of the bucks, youll see light rain heres the heavier stuff heading our way later today it the is in southern illinois, indian, through kentucky and west virginia, showers and thunderstorms possible from all that. So, for the the most part what we are seeing is north of philadelphia but get ready for rain have the rain gear with you doing your last minute holiday stuff, 68 degrees is your high. I like that. About 55 tonight with thunderstorms possible that is y
Keep temperatures on the warm side. Tracking some showers right now, you can see a few light scattered showers in montgomery and bucks county and moving into chester county. Its part of the system that will be with us throughout the day today. 60 degrees in philadelphia pottstown, northeast philadelphia wilmington at 61. Standby with your umbrella 56 degrees at 6 00. By 9 00 it warms to 60. And 63 degrees with rain and southwesterly winds at 14 miles an hour. Thats at noontime today. Well go through it hour by hour with the latest future weather when im back in ten minutes. First, its traffic reporter cay city danry city katy zachry on this friday morning. We have good news as we start out on 95 and girard avenue. We have longterm overnight construction not tying anything up, but you have a good drive on 95 this morning. Speaking of 95 14 minutes to go southbound between woodhaven and the vine. On 76 eastbound between the blue route and the vine 13 minutes. Then on 422 eastbound betwee