Join you inside. Thank you, kate. We have to remember it is only march, right. So many of us making most of this warmth while it lasts, that includes Eyewitness News reporter walt hunter live at the cobbs creek golf course, i know ukee is jealous of you today, it is busy, did you get a round in, walt. Hey, guys. Weather is suiting us to a t you might the say. It is 14th tea at cobbs creek course. As ukee would agree any day where temperature is in march and in the 70s matches youre deal golf game in the 70s is in anyones view just about a perfect day. It was a day, to have a ball, on rittenhouse square, or locust walk the at the university of pennsylvania. Shorts, tshirts, jogging, and biking. The Weather Forecast really just came down to two simple words. Beautiful day. Reporter suddenly those winter coats were an unwanted option along kelly drive, lots of runners, as the temperature raced its way in to record levels. Now on the cobbs creek golf course the warmth brought out the birdi
Wednesday. Were feeling so nice right now. Definitely in the really marchlike. Feeling like spring, for sure, quiet conditions. We will have a lot of sunshine in store for today. Storm scan three confirming that, really quiet conditions, a few passing cloud, otherwise, a whole bunch of nothing. Temperatures right now 44 degrees in philadelphia, in wind to worry about. Were 46 down the shore. Four 2a very mild start in the poconos, and we are heading up for record warmth today. 79 degrees, our forecast high for today, our average High Temperature is 50 degrees. So we are going well beyond that, previous record 73 setback in 2,000. We will crush that today, in your daily planner, just gorgeous conditions, 56 degrees with sunshine by 9 00 oclock hour. Beautiful on your lunch hour, you might want to take lunch hour and a half, mostly sunny, 37 degrees and we will top out at 79 meisha by end of the the daze today and more record warmth in the forecast. I will have details on that coming up.
On it. We know from where we are on the ground and also our video from sky force 10 that there are probably upwards of 20 to 25 ladder trucks and hoses that are just pouring water still on this fire. So, from that video you shot just a minute ago, the flames at the height of it were just so intense. Clearly firefighters have gotten a good handle on this fire. We are around the back side on the ground. I can see that there are still flames coming from inside the building. But my colleague jesse gary has a much Better Vantage Point from the air and were going to go to him in just a minute. But i do want to just tell you that were in West Kensington. A commercial residential, some industrial area. You have a mix of everything. There is a school just a few blocks away. Streets are blocked off. I would say for at least half a mile around this just because it is such a large firefighting effort. No injuries to firefighters, which is pretty amazing. I think everyone would say that. Those of u
Transformer that exploded, a utility pole that surrounded the block and had caught on fire. So, as a result of that, you have the Water Department out here and you have philadelphia, the power crews out here. Peco out here and Salvation Army is on scene, of course, to assist the dozens of firefigh r firefighters who responded throughout the city at the height of it. It was a four alarm fire. As we said, it is under control. Sky force 10 is above and jesse gary is in the chopper to give you a better perspective of the flames right now. Theres still flames coming from inside the building. I guess we do not have the chopper, sorry about that. I can tell you that if youre looking from the air you can see there is still hot spots. Its going to take a while for fire crews to put this fire out and i think we have the chopper shot for you now. Many streets around this West Kensington neighborhood are blocked off. Several schools in the area. Were still waiting on word about how the transportat
Fire consums a warehouse in West Kensington. This morning the intense heat of the blaze could be felt for miles. Right now we know at least two people are hurt, one of them with burns on 80 of their body. We have Team Coverage of the warehouse fire this morning. Lets get right to nbcs katy zachary. Tell us what is happening right now. This four alarm fire broke out around 2 00 this morning on the 2400 block of american street. This is the latest information we have from fire commissioner derek sawyer. When the fire broke out, it took crews about an hour and a half to get it under control. The fire started in a vacant building and then spread to a Paper Company building, which is adjacent to this warehouse that youre looking at right now. Now, that Paper Company building is an operating business. So, its no wonder when we pulled up we saw very heavy, thick, black smoke pouring from the building and we knew there was something very flammable inside. The fire was brought completely or fou