LATEST: 12 people, including 8 children, were killed Wednesday morning after flames ripped through a Philadelphia rowhouse, fire officials say; officials had previously said that at least 13 were killed.
Even hours after flames were extinguished, firefighters were going through the rubble and feared there might be more victims.
"There was heavy fire," First Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy said earlier."... That fire was moving. It's feeding on contents, it's feeding on oxygen and it's feeding on fire." It appeared that most of the damage was contained to one building in the densely populated residential neighborhood."I don't have the words for how we're feeling right now as a community and as a department," Murphy said.
Eight people lived in one unit that spanned the first and second floors, while 18 resided in another unit that took up the second and third floors.A woman reacts at the scene of a deadly rowhouse fire Wednesday in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia.State Sen. Sharif Street, who represents the neighborhood where the fire happened, also wondered about the number of people housed under one roof early Wednesday.
The building was last inspected in May and all smoke detectors were working at that time, according to Dinesh Indala, the housing authority's senior executive vice president of operations.
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