{"id":82198,"date":"2026-01-09T09:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82198\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:05:27","slug":"2-people-rescued-from-building-fire-in-philadelphias-grays-ferry-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82198\/","title":{"rendered":"2 people rescued from building fire in Philadelphia&#8217;s Grays Ferry neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-08-000516-e1767859697248-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-678541\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: Officials say two people were rescued by firefighters and taken to the hospital following a church building fire in Philadelphia\u2019s Grays Ferry section.<\/p>\n<p>Flames broke out just after 7 a.m. on Wednesday inside an administrative building connected to the Abundant Life church on South 26th and Tasker streets.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that before they arrived, Thomas Lewis, the pastor of the church, saw the smoke and tried to rush inside to save a female coworker and her elderly father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried. I did my best. I couldn\u2019t get them. I couldn\u2019t get to the third floor to get Mr. Ricky out. Firemen brought him out,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t hesitate once he saw the smoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy coworkers, my loved ones, I had to be there for them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly man was trapped on the second floor and rescued by firefighters. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>His daughter, a woman in her 50s, was also rescued by first responders. She is currently in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI-TV ABC 6 Philadelphia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Officials say two people were rescued by firefighters and taken to the hospital following a church building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8338,28,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-82198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-mid-atlantic-region","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82198","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=82198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}