A person was rescued by firefighters as flames tore through a West Philadelphia rowhome overnight, officials said. <\/p>\n
According to officials with the Philadelphia Fire Department, a person was rescued after flames erupted in a rowhome along the 200 block of South 55th Street in West Philadelphia at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
This person was taken to the hospital, but officials did not immediately provide details on their injuries. <\/p>\n
NBC10’s crews captured smoke billowing into the night sky as firefighters crawled into second-floor windows and worked on the roof of the structure early Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Crews were able to get the flames under control at about 2:30 a.m. <\/p>\n
Fire officials did not discuss what may have caused this fire, nor did they say if anyone else was in the home when flames erupted.<\/p>\n
But, an investigation into the incident is ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was rescued by firefighters as flames tore through a West Philadelphia rowhome overnight, officials said. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,877],"class_list":["post-320229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-west-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320229","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=320229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}