Pennypack creek. A child falls victim to the first shark attack of the season. The big news on action news, is Mother Nature spoiling some memorial day plans. The long Holiday Weekend is ending on a gloomy note forcing people to cancel cookouts and moving things indoors. David murphy not a total washout everywhere. Reporter the shore is getting the brunt of this. Whats causing the rain is the combination of the remnants of Tropical Storm bonnie now a depression. In fact the National Hurricane center released an hour ago its final statement on the storm because it is weakening so much and meandering out to see over the next sea over the next couple of days its not much of a factor. With the storm moving in this direction it is pulling the rain over by the coast. As we look at the current view on Storm Tracker 6 live double scan, this is pretty much whether a future tracker has been showing you late last night and this morning. Rain mainly over by the coast, popup showers possible closer
With a a fire extinguisher. They tried putting it out with that. And then they came out and said everybody out, everybody out and then that was it. I guess the buildings done now. I mean, weve been there for 98 years for crying out loud. Reporter really . Yeah. It was a great post. Reporter back live here on the scene, the four alarm fire now under control. The cause has not been determined. Fortunately, there were no injuries but a sad day for veterans of American Legion post 396. Were live here in frankford, im dann cuellar channel6 action news. Back to you, rick. All right, dann, thank you. Turn and now to the soggy memorial day accuweather forecast. A wet day at the shore prompted dozens to end their Holiday Weekend a bit early. Lets get right over to meteorologist cecily tynan at the action news big board. Cecily how long will the rain stick around. Rick, along the shore the rain, the steady rain should be moving out within the next hour or two, which is good because it has been a
You can see in southern new jersey and delaware and theres the front coming in from the north and west popping some thunderstorms Near State College and scranton because of some sunshine that has returned well watch these as they sink to the south and east. Most will eventually fall apart but some communities could get hit by a scattered downpour or thunderstorm this evening. A local view on storm tracker6 along the shore shows that rain continues to fall steadily from mays landing right on the brink of millville south of dover to the shore. Heavy at times in Cape May County and this comes after a very rainy overnight of sunday into monday morning where we did pick up close to two to 3 inches of rain right along that i95 corridor especially on the new jersey side and even in parts of New Castle County near wilmington 2inches and then also another area to the north and west in the Lehigh Valley and the poconos where we saw over 2inches of rain. What to expect . That rain is going to end
So, my soninlaw ran upstairs and here at the attic upstairs a motor had caught fire and i guess that started the whole thing. It started out as a little tiny fire. Reporter the fire starter out as two alarms but quickly grew to four alarms. They tried putting it out with a fire extinguisher. They tried putting it out with that. And then they came out and said everybody out, everybody out and then that was it. Reporter it was over an hour before firefighters were finally able to bring the fire under control. I guess the buildings done now. I mean, weve been there for 98 years for crying out loud. Reporter really . Yeah. It was a great post. Reporter over 100 firefighters were involved in fighting this fire. One firefighter suffered minor injuries. Obviously its too early right now to know what caused the fire. But witnesses say it seemed to have started in a motor up in the attic. The fire marshal is investigating. Were live here in frankford, im dann cuellar, channel6 action news. Rick
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