{"id":256342,"date":"2026-07-31T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256342\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:54:09","slug":"man-critically-injured-after-being-found-engulfed-in-flames-in-kensington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256342\/","title":{"rendered":"Man critically injured after being found engulfed in flames in Kensington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Philadelphia-police-cruiser-and-tape.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A 34-year-old man was hospitalized after he was found engulfed in flames along Kensington Avenue on Friday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>   What happened <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Philadelphia police responded to the 3400 block of Kensington Avenue on July 31 for a report of a person screaming.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When officers arrived, a passerby told them that a man had been found lying on the ground engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Philadelphia Fire Department medics transported the man to Temple University Hospital, where he was listed in critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p> What investigators said <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Philadelphia Fire Marshal\u2019s Office responded to the scene and determined that the fire was not suspicious.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police did not provide additional information about how the fire started or what happened before the man was found.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The circumstances surrounding the incident remain under investigation by the East Detective Division.<\/p>\n<p> How to help <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the East Detective Division or submit an anonymous tip by calling 215-686-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A 34-year-old man was hospitalized after he was found engulfed in flames along Kensington Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":["post-256342","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\/256342","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=256342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}