{"id":1493,"date":"2025-10-15T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1493\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:37:07","slug":"philadelphia-firefighter-found-dead-inside-rowhome-police-homicide-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1493\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia firefighter found dead inside rowhome, police homicide sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A homicide investigation is underway after a Philadelphia firefighter was found dead inside a rowhome in Holmesburg early Wednesday morning, police sources tell CBS News Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>According to Philadelphia police, officers were called to a rowhome on the 4700 block of Shelmire Avenue, just after 4 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>One person was pronounced dead at the scene. Multiple police sources told CBS News Philadelphia reporter Joe Holden the person found dead was a Philadelphia firefighter.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word on the cause of death, but the incident is currently being investigated as a homicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stay with CBS News Philadelphia for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homicide investigation is underway after a Philadelphia firefighter was found dead inside a rowhome in Holmesburg early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,457,69,1486,71,70],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime","tag-homicide","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\/1493","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=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}