A battery from a hoverboard sparked a fire in the basement of a home in Philly’s Mayfair section overnight, officials said. <\/p>\n
According to police, the incident happened at about 2:19 a.m., when fire crews were called to a home along the 3000 block of Magee Avenue in Mayfair due to a basement fire. <\/p>\n
The fire was put under control by about 2:43 a.m., officials said. <\/p>\n
Also, officials said, a hazmat team was called to the location because the fire was believed to have been started by a hoverboard battery. <\/p>\n
However, the Red Cross said it has delivered emergency assistance to a family of four that was involved in this incident. <\/p>\n
But, no one was hurt in this fire, officials said. <\/p>\n
An investigation on this fire is still underway. <\/p>\n
This is a breaking news story. It will be updated as new information becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A battery from a hoverboard sparked a fire in the basement of a home in Philly’s Mayfair section…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2327,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-250214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-northeast-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250214","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=250214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}