{"id":204344,"date":"2026-05-28T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204344\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:53:07","slug":"fire-rips-through-home-in-philadelphias-olney-neighborhood-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204344\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire rips through home in Philadelphia\u2019s Olney neighborhood \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters rescued multiple people trapped by a fire that swept a home in Philadelphia&#8217;s Olney neighborhood overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out on Wellens Street overnight. NBC10 obtained video from the Citizens App showing flames shooting from the porch of a home, which damaged neighboring houses.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said crews rescued several people who were initially trapped during fire, and they all got out safely. Families who lived in neighboring homes were also safely evacuated. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Olney-House-Fire-e1779959705253.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCitizens AppCitizens App<\/p>\n<p>NBC10 spoke to a neighbor who lives next door. She mentioned that she was fortunate to be awake at the time, doing schoolwork, when she went downstairs and noticed the flames.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was like it can&#8217;t be a fire. I&#8217;ve always seen people&#8217;s houses on fire but I never thought it would be me,&#8221; said Gia Smith. &#8220;I was confused at first. Then we came downstairs and we tried to go through the front door but the fire was right in front of us. I started to get really scared because I thought I was going to be stuck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said no one was taken to the hospital. Crews remained at the scene monitoring for hotspots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescued multiple people trapped by a fire that swept a home in Philadelphia&#8217;s Olney neighborhood overnight. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11099,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-204344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-olney","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204344","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=204344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}