{"id":114122,"date":"2026-02-14T18:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114122\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T18:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:29:19","slug":"falls-bridge-kelly-drive-closed-in-philadelphia-as-crews-respond-to-train-fire-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114122\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls Bridge, Kelly Drive closed in Philadelphia as crews respond to train fire scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Falls Bridge and part of Kelly Drive are closed on Friday morning for Philadelphia police and fire activity at the scene of a train fire that broke out Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Images from Chopper 3 showed a fire hose running across the Falls Bridge around 6:30 a.m., feeding a fire truck near the train tracks along the Schuylkill River.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/train-fire-schuylkill-river-kelly-drive-falls-bridge.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"train-fire-schuylkill-river-kelly-drive-falls-bridge.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>The truck was spraying water on a charred railcar that was seen on fire on Thursday afternoon. The fire in the Conrail rail car, a trash car, was brought under control around 4 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible the blaze rekindled overnight and crews needed to spray more water on the train car.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Drive is closed between the Falls Bridge and Ridge Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                      Josh  Sanders and <\/p>\n<p>                      Kim  Hudson<\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Falls Bridge and part of Kelly Drive are closed on Friday morning for Philadelphia police and fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,33486],"class_list":{"0":"post-114122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news","11":"tag-schuylkill-river"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}