evening for fors in philadelphia. it s wednesday night and the big story on action news tonight is the first of two blazes forcing evacuation of residents. we focus first on an apartment building fire in center city. christie ileto is at 13th and walnut. what s the latest there? jim, fire crews are on scene. residents in the apartment building at 13th and walnut will not be allowed to return home because lni has to do inspections after the blaze. firefighters believe the fire started in an air conditioning unit before quickly spreading. there was a loud banging exproatioexplosion noise. that sound came from what investigators believe was a fire starting in an air conditioning unit at this apartment building at 13th and walnut. i was terrified. i thought it would get out of control. did you smell the smoke? it was coming down the stairs. firefighters had to break windows to pull several feet of hose up 12 flights of stairs. it s a lot more labor intensive tha
that sound came from what investigators believe was a fire starting in an air conditioning unit at this apartment building at 13th and walnut. i was terrified. i thought it would get out of control. did you smell the smoke? it was coming down the stairs. firefighters had to break windows to pull several feet of hose up 12 flights of stairs. it s a lot more labor intensive than dwellings. the chief s call for extra help made a great aggressive attack and saved the building. the blaze is believed to have started on the second floor and race today the third. the smoke billowing could be seen as far as south philadelphia. a viewer snapped this photo from the baseball stadium. it s scary when you walk out and saw all of the fire trucks and realize it was real. that s right. real indeed. there were no injuries. several people were displaced. we are told the building had 132 units. no one is able to go back home because lni has to do inspections. christie ileto, a
people have been using these images of creepy clowns to make threats. often against schools. today police in washington township arrested a 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy in separate incidents. the girl has confessed to making online threats against fellow students. she has been charged with cyber harassment. police say the boy was making a general threat to do harm to the public. in philadelphia police have identified a 13-year-old girl who made creepy clown threats towards local schools. action news reporter jeanette reyes is live at the school administration building. these may be intended as pranks, but parents and police say there is nothing funny about them. reporter: that s exactly right. these clown threats and sightings, jim, really terrorized the country and hit close to home over the weekend after several threats were made to area schools. tonight we learn about the arrests made and why experts say specifically clowns tend to get the kind of reactions we
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rosemary. the arctic blast in full effect especially tonight into tomorrow. if you look at the bottom of the screen, you ll see your local neighborhood forecast. currently in philadelphia, 37 degrees. we do have northwesterly winds that help gistjust a little bit. moisture here, wider perspective. notice we re getting influence of that lake-effect snow. however, that won t get here until late tomorrow, early afternoon hours with northwesterly push. hour by hour, starting this and getting this through tomorrow. notice that we start to see a little bit of a push. that northwesterly influence. looks like lake-effect snow for parts of lehigh valley and parts of the p.a. suburbs as well. i m look at the forecast, certainly below average for this time of year. and overnight lows in the 20s. and we are tracking the potential for a wintry mix sunday into monday. jessica, with traffic. starting offer with mass transit, we re dealing with 30-minute delays from the amtrak northeast co