{"id":140704,"date":"2026-03-17T14:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140704\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:20:16","slug":"4-people-including-2-firefighters-injured-in-east-germantown-rowhome-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140704\/","title":{"rendered":"4 people, including 2 firefighters, injured in East Germantown rowhome fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 firefighters responded to a rowhome fire that injured several people in Philadelphia&#8217;s East Germantown neighborhood Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started around 7 a.m. on the 500 block of High Street inside a two-story rowhome.<\/p>\n<p>A Philadelphia Fire Department spokesperson said two people were rescued from the home, and a firefighter also had to be rescued after issuing a mayday call when the building&#8217;s first floor collapsed. All three people were treated at the scene before being taken to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chopper-high-street-fire-031726-frame-10441.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Rowhome fire on High Street in East Germantown \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Rowhome fire on High Street in East Germantown<\/p>\n<p>                CBS Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>A second alarm was issued for the fire several minutes later, which prompted dozens of other firefighters, medics and support units to arrive at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Video from Chopper 3 showed multiple fire crews working on the roof of the rowhome and breaking through windows on the second floor.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chopper-high-street-fire-031726-frame-6584.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Rowhome fire on High Street in East Germantown \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Rowhome fire on High Street in East Germantown<\/p>\n<p>                CBS Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>PFD said a second firefighter was looked at by medics for a &#8220;minor&#8221; injury. The department did not say if that firefighter was transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Two adjacent homes were damaged in the fire, which was placed under control around 7:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office is investigating the cause of the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 100 firefighters responded to a rowhome fire that injured several people in Philadelphia&#8217;s East Germantown neighborhood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[422,69,1486,71,70],"class_list":["post-140704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fire","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-fire-department","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140704","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=140704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}