{"id":141133,"date":"2026-03-17T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141133\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:00:07","slug":"firefighter-2-other-people-hospitalized-after-rowhouse-fire-in-east-germantown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141133\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter, 2 other people hospitalized after rowhouse fire in East Germantown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Three people, including a firefighter, were hospitalized after a two-alarm rowhouse fire erupted Tuesday morning in the East <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/germantown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Germantown<\/a> section of Philadelphia, a Philadelphia Fire Department spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The fire was reported shortly before 7 a.m. on the 500 block of High Street, and responding firefighters encountered heavy smoke coming out of the two-story rowhouse, said department spokesperson Kathy Matheson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">\u201cTwo occupants were rescued from the home, and later a firefighter was also rescued after declaring a mayday when the first floor collapsed,\u201d Matheson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">A second alarm was struck at 7:09 a.m. after the mayday was declared, Matheson said. Around 100 fire department personnel in total responded to the scene. The fire was declared under control at 7:44 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">A second firefighter was evaluated at the scene by medics for a minor injury, Matheson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The cause of the fire, which also damaged two adjacent properties, was under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people, including a firefighter, were hospitalized after a two-alarm rowhouse fire erupted Tuesday morning in the East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64636,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-141133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-east-germantown-firefighter-hospitalized","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141133","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=141133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}