{"id":244515,"date":"2026-07-16T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244515\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:43:08","slug":"2-children-injured-others-rescued-from-west-philadelphia-fire-emergency-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244515\/","title":{"rendered":"2 children injured, others rescued from West Philadelphia fire, emergency officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two children were injured, and multiple other people were rescued from a fire in West Philadelphia Wednesday night, according to Philly Fire Dispatch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire started around 10 p.m. in the area of South 55th and Ludlow streets, according to fire dispatch.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chopper-55th-and-ludlow-fire-aerials-071526-frame-8690.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"chopper-55th-and-ludlow-fire-aerials-071526-frame-8690.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Two children were injured, and multiple other people were rescued from a fire in West Philadelphia Wednesday night, according to Philly Fire Dispatch.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>One of the children is in critical condition, while the other is being treated for their injuries, fire dispatch said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how the fire started.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two children were injured, and multiple other people were rescued from a fire in West Philadelphia Wednesday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[422,69,71,70,877],"class_list":["post-244515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fire","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-west-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244515","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=244515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}