{"id":204022,"date":"2026-05-28T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204022\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:28:11","slug":"partial-building-collapse-closes-part-of-kensington-avenue-in-philadelphia-emergency-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204022\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial building collapse closes part of Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia, emergency officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews are responding to a partial building collapse in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kensington neighborhood Wednesday evening, fire officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 3 was over the scene on the 3100 block of Kensington Avenue around 6:30 p.m., where the building&#8217;s roof appeared to be collapsing. Fire officials say the building was condemned.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Kensington Avenue is closed. No injuries have been reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/kensington-partial-collapse.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"The roof of a building on Kensington Avenue is collapsing in this image from Chopper 3 \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews are responding to a partial building collapse in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kensington neighborhood Wednesday evening, fire officials said.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17163,8921,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-204022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-building-collapse","tag-kensington","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204022","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=204022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}