UPDATE: A child was playing with a lighter near a Christmas tree prior to the fast-moving fire inside a Philadelphia row home that killed 12 people, including eight children, in the city’s Fairmount neighborhood, investigative sources told NBC10.
“It was terrible. I’ve been around for 35 years now and this is probably one of the worst fires I have ever been to,” Murphy remarked. The fire was tied for the sixth-deadliest residential fire in the United States since 1980,A neighbor said he heard screams around 6:30 a.m. and came downstairs to find the house ablaze."It was just such a shocking moment," he said.
“The family grew between 2011 and 2021, adding about eight children to the family household,” PHA President and CEO Kelvin Jeremiah said during a Thursday afternoon press conference. “This is a family that wanted to be together. Our mission is to provide safe, sanitary housing. And I think we did so in this case.”
There were six working battery-operated smoke detectors installed in the home, but none were operational at the time of the blaze, firefighters said. Jeremiah said in a written statement that all smoke detectors were working properly when the property was last inspected in May of last year. “What I can tell you is this is a resource-intensive investigation. It’s an exceptional time – manpower staffing, equipment, commitment – to get to the origin and cause of this tragedy,” PFD Deputy Chief Dennis Merrigan said.
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