{"id":307976,"date":"2026-10-16T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307976\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:14:10","slug":"3-taken-to-hospital-following-drexel-hill-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307976\/","title":{"rendered":"3 taken to hospital following Drexel Hill house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people were taken to hospitals following a predawn house fire Friday in Drexel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The call went out at 4:23 a.m. in the 3800 block of Albemarle Avenue just off Burmont Road.<\/p>\n<p>Upper Darby Assistant Fire Chief Robert Callahan said the initial call was for people trapped.<\/p>\n<p>Crews arrived to find fire showing from a second-floor front bedroom of the two-and-a-half story twin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Upper Darby firefighters operate in the 3800 block of Albermarle Avenue Friday morning. (COURTESY UPPER DARBY FIRE DEPARTMENT)\" width=\"4284\" height=\"748\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0759-rotated-1.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"1898366\" \/>Upper Darby firefighters operate in the 3800 block of Albermarle Avenue Friday morning. (COURTESY UPPER DARBY FIRE DEPARTMENT)<\/p>\n<p>Four residents lived in the home. Two adults were evaluated and taken to Lankenau Medical Center. A 10-year-old boy was evaluated and transported to Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Callahan said the fire was quickly knocked down and crews opened up walls to check for extension. There was no extension into the adjoining home.<\/p>\n<p>The whereabouts of a teen daughter have not been determined.<\/p>\n<p>One firefighter was treated at the scene for a minor injury.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation. The incident was placed under control about 30 minutes in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people were taken to hospitals following a predawn house fire Friday in Drexel Hill. The call went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,212,182,139,28,210,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-307976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-dtd","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307976","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=307976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}