{"id":304730,"date":"2026-10-12T00:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304730\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T00:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:14:07","slug":"child-killed-adult-in-critical-condition-after-kensington-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304730\/","title":{"rendered":"Child killed, adult in critical condition after Kensington house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young girl was killed and an adult was seriously injured in a fire that was caused by an electric bicycle battery early Sunday morning in Kensington, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out just after 3:30 a.m. inside a rowhome on the 3300 block of D Street, according to the Philadelphia Fire Department. First responders who arrived at the scene saw smoke coming from the second floor, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters rescued a girl and an adult from the home, but the child later died, a fire department spokesperson said. The adult was hospitalized in critical condition, according to the department. Officials did not release further information about the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Two other people, an adult and a child, escaped from the home and were treated for nonlife-threatening injuries, authorities added.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Marshal\u2019s Office determined that the fire was caused by a lithium-ion e-bike battery that was in an upstairs bedroom, the spokesperson told Metro.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/local-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the latest news from across the city<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tKeywords<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tKensington,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Philadelphia Fire Department,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t House Fires,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t E-Bikes,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Lithium-Ion Batteries,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Public Safety\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young girl was killed and an adult was seriously injured in a fire that was caused by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1288,31745,8921,125127,69,1486,71,70,294],"class_list":["post-304730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-e-bikes","tag-house-fires","tag-kensington","tag-lithium-ion-batteries","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-fire-department","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304730","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=304730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}