{"id":256626,"date":"2026-07-31T20:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256626\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:15:17","slug":"a-man-was-found-engulfed-in-flames-on-kensington-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256626\/","title":{"rendered":"A man was found engulfed in flames on Kensington Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Police found a man engulfed in flames along <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/kensington\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kensington<\/a> Avenue Friday morning in what fire department officials called a \u201cnon-suspicious\u201d fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Police responded to the 3400 block of Kensington Avenue Friday morning for a report of a screaming person. Upon arrival, a person passing by said a 34-year-old man was found on the ground engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Philadelphia Fire Department medics responded to the scene and transported the man to <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/temple-university\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Temple University<\/a> Hospital, where he was placed in critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The circumstances surrounding the incident remain under investigation by the East Detective Division, but the Fire Marshal\u2019s Office ruled the fire to be \u201cnon-suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to contact the East Detective Division or submit an anonymous tip through the <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/philadelphia-police-department\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Police Department<\/a>\u2019s tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Police found a man engulfed in flames along Kensington Avenue Friday morning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109213,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-256626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-man-engulfed-flames-kensington-avenue","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256626","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=256626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}