Crews were dispatched on Saturday about 3:45 p.m. for a house fire in the 900 block of Poplar Avenue.<\/p>\n
Radio traffic shows that first arriving personnel found a two-story end-of-row house with a fire in a corner on the second floor.<\/p>\n
The bulk of the fire was \u201cknocked\u201d shortly before 4 p.m. and the incident was placed under control at 4:11 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Red Cross was summoned to the scene, and later added it was helping a family of four, and board-up was sought for five windows and a hole in the roof.<\/p>\n
Sharon Hill Fire Company, station 9, added:<\/p>\n
\u201cEngine 9 arrived FDE to a house fire in the 900 block of Poplar Avenue in the Briarcliffe section of Darby Township. Arriving crews had smoke showing from the second floor and deployed a 200\u2019 hand line. Crews located the fire on the second floor rear bedroom. The fire was placed under control within 30 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews were dispatched on Saturday about 3:45 p.m. for a house fire in the 900 block of Poplar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2133,212,182,139,28,69,71,70,210],"class_list":["post-247375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-darby-township","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-top-stories-dtd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247375","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=247375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}