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PHILADELPHIA – Investigators say a hoverboard is to blame for the early-morning fire that destroyed a home in Mayfair on Thursday. Now, the Red Cross is assisting the family of three.<\/p>\n
Family escapes Mayfair fire <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The fire broke out in the basement of the row home in the 3000 block of McGee Avenue early Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Neighbors tell FOX 29 that they woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the home around 2:30 a.m. A woman who lived in the home woke up to a fire alarm, a friend said. The woman went downstairs and discovered the fire in the basement, before closing the door and instructing her family to get out.<\/p>\n
The family was able to escape the home, and no one was reported injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Firefighters were able to get the fire under control and put out the flames.<\/p>\n
Dig deeper:<\/p>\n
Investigators then discovered the lithium-ion battery connected to the hoverboard in the basement, and called in a Hazmat crew.<\/p>\n
Firefighters say hoverboard and scooter batteries are a growing concern, increasingly involved in fires. A recent report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology<\/a> estimates that lithium-ion batteries have caused nearly 200,000 structure fires in the U.S. since 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The home was destroyed in the fire. The Red Cross of Philadelphia said it is assisting the family of four as they deal with the aftermath.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story is from the Philadelphia Fire Department, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and reporting from FOX 29’s JoAnn Pileggi.<\/p>\n Philadelphia<\/a>Crime & Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA – Investigators say a hoverboard is to blame for the early-morning fire that destroyed a home in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":["post-251594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251594","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=251594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}