{"id":168735,"date":"2026-04-17T17:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168735\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:57:19","slug":"philadelphia-animal-welfare-society-reopens-shelter-after-deadly-grays-ferry-parking-garage-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168735\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society reopens shelter after deadly Grays Ferry parking garage collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767787749_197_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, April 17, 2026 5:14PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Philly animal shelter reopens after deadly parking garage collapse\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; The area surrounding the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/collapse-reported-parking-garage-south-philadelphia\/18857210\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deadly parking garage collapse<\/a> in Philadelphia&#8217;s Grays Ferry neighborhood is slowly returning back to normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/animals-evacuated-philly-paws-due-parking-garage-collapse-shelter-now-offering-name-fee-adoptions\/18865354\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society, or PAWS<\/a>, reopened on Friday after evacuating dozens of animals over safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shelter is located right next door to the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Visitors of the shelter should both enter and exit through the entrance on Grays Ferry Avenue, as 30th Street remains closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Staff and volunteers worked through the night to move dogs and cats to safe locations following the collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Most nearby roads have also reopened, along with the<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/grays-ferry-shopping-center-reopens-following-deadly-parking-garage-collapse\/18885000\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> shopping center and the Fresh Grocer supermarket<\/a> across the street.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, April 17, 2026 5:14PM PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; The area surrounding the deadly parking garage collapse in Philadelphia&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75971,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-168735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-75971","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\/168735","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=168735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}