Plunging into the deep freeze, its a bitterly cold night and only colder when windchills will fall to near zero. Battling fire and ice, a frigid weather and added challenge for crews fighting a condo fire in delaware county. Plus the dramatic rescue of one famil family. A baby girl in her mothers arm, days ago, she was mauled by a racoon. Tonight, Little Journey is on the rowed to recovery. We begin with a bitter blast of cold weather. And its going to be sticking around for awhile. Good evening, im jessica dean. Ukee washington has the night off. Getting over to lauren casey tracking the cold temperature, plus the windchill that is will make it feel colder. All this ramped up on christmas day, the temperatures plunge the winds elevated. Santa brought this to us, we dont want it. We want to return it. Temperatures, struggle the 33 degrees, normal 42, degrees below. Temperatures sub freezing in philadelphia at 27 degrees. Were going to stay sub freezing for about the next 180 plus hours
Family. A baby girl in her mothers arm, days ago, she was mauled by a racoon. Tonight, Little Journey is on the rowed to recovery. We begin with a bitter blast of cold weather. And its going to be sticking around for awhile. Good evening, im jessica dean. Ukee washington has the night off. Getting over to lauren casey tracking the cold temperature, plus the windchill that is will make it feel colder. All this ramped up on christmas day, the temperatures plunge the winds elevated. Santa brought this to us, we dont want it. We want to return it. Temperatures, struggle the 33 degrees, normal 42, degrees below. Temperatures sub freezing in philadelphia at 27 degrees. Were going to stay sub freezing for about the next 180 plus hours. 21 right now in allentown, were at seven in mount pocono. 20s in atlantic city. Then, of course, factoring in even a little bit of a breeze, and feels like 17 in philly. Feeling like nine in allentown and feeling like three below at this hour in mount pocono. A
The families who lost their apartments are staying with relatives, friends and nearby community center. The apartment is about 60 yard behind us. We met a man who escaped his third floor Apartment Building minutes before it was destroyed. Reporter from the air in the ground. You can see flames shooting from an Apartment Building in brook haven. A fire tore through 18 apartments including jim. After the police got me out i saw flames coming up through the middle. Top floor. Reporter he saved a painting. An art portfolio and pet bird. Everything else is gone. My wallet is in there. My keys to the car is in there. Everything i have. My lifes worth. One group of firefighters saved a family of three trapped on the third floor. They were brought down a ladder. 35 foot from the third floor. These two neighbors were feet away from the building. Concerned the fire would spread. You could feel the heat. By the door. I hit the door and the smoke. We could smell the smoke. Reporter once the fire w
Temperatures make life even harder for firefighters battling the flames. Those bonechilling temperatures get used to them. Theyre sticking around. Now, fox 29 news at 10 00. We begin tonight with that breaking story in delaware county. Video from skyfox shows the daunting task for firefighters. Flames shot high into the air overbrook haven. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im Bill Anderson iain page is off tonight. Those flames forced residents out of the their homes and firefighters right now still working to make sure the fire is out. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson joins us live from brookhaven. Shawnette . Reporter lucy and bill, tonight initially there were reports of people being trapped inside but fire officials have not been able to confirm that. We do know, however, that there have been no reports of any injuries or transports and that part is good news. But tonight residents are worried that they have lot of everything. Heard a loud knocking on my door, and was told to get out of the b
Have a lot going on. Even though there is not precipitation in the forecast today and tomorrow the story is how cold it is. So chilly outside. Wind is lighter then it was. You lied to me, katie. But it is a lot more brutal on the thermometer, and, and, those streets of what looks like snow showers are not verified in most spots but we are experiencing enough, cold air in place here. It feels awfully frigid outside and although i expect we will see more sun then anything, basically nothing, so to help warm things up. 24 degrees. We will likely drop off on that thermometer through the course of the morning before the sun comes up but then we dont rebound that far. Make a mental picture of these actual air temperatures. Now lets look at how it feels. Basically you have to knock 10 e nine below zero, in mount pocono right now. So that is where war of this is taking place, so lets face it 13 degrees for feels like value is no picnic either but we have sunshine in this forecast. It is cold h