{"id":198109,"date":"2026-05-20T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198109\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:54:07","slug":"amtrak-septa-service-halted-after-north-philadelphia-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198109\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak, SEPTA service halted after North Philadelphia fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/firefighters-battling-massive-blaze-north-philadelphia\/19138324\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6abc<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Firefighters battled a massive 2-alarm brush fire in North Philadelphia Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Amtrak has halted train operations between Philadelphia and New York due to the fire.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">SEPTA says it has also temporarily suspended trains on the Trenton line. Passengers are urged to find alternate routes and check\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/www.septa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">SEPTA.org<\/a>\u00a0or the SEPTA app for updates.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The blaze broke out around 1 p.m. in the 1000 block of West Glenwood Ave, near West Allegheny Ave.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire was placed under control about an hour later.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chopper 6 was overhead a business where cars are stored near the Amtrak tracks.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There has been no report of injuries.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story originally appeared on 6abc. Firefighters battled a massive 2-alarm brush fire in North Philadelphia Wednesday. Amtrak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2153,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-198109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-6abc","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198109","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=198109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}