{"id":316803,"date":"2026-10-29T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316803\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:06:09","slug":"mother-son-taken-to-hospital-after-child-jumps-from-2-nd-floor-during-house-fire-in-philadelphias-nicetown-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316803\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother, son taken to hospital after child jumps from 2-nd floor during house fire in Philadelphia&#8217;s Nicetown section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother and her 12-year-old son were taken to the hospital early Thursday morning after a fire in Nicetown.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Katherine Scott Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/14306457_wpvi_bio_katherinescott_160x200.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, October 29, 2026 9:33AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A mother and her 12-year-old son were taken to the hospital early Thursday morning after a fire in Philadelphia&#8217;s Nicetown section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fire crews were called out to West Erie Avenue, by Sydenham, around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Firefighters were met with flames coming from the second floor and people hanging from windows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials say the 12-year-old boy had already jumped from the second floor and was suffering from airway burns, smoke inhalation, and injuries sustained from the fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His mother was being treated for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Firefighters put up ladders and helped get residents out, ultimately rescuing six people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire was placed under control in around 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother and her 12-year-old son were taken to the hospital early Thursday morning after a fire in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[129128,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-316803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-129128","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316803","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=316803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}