{"id":139260,"date":"2025-08-12T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139260\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:00:21","slug":"6-injured-in-rowhomes-fire-in-kensington-on-monday-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139260\/","title":{"rendered":"6 injured in rowhomes fire in Kensington on Monday \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six people were injured, including three kids, after several rowhomes caught fire at the 3400 block of Reach Street in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/kensington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kensington<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telemundo62.com\/noticias\/local\/incendio-reach-street-kensington-filadelfia-viviendas-adosadas\/2517061\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.telemundo62.com\/noticias\/local\/incendio-reach-street-kensington-filadelfia-viviendas-adosadas\/2517061\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">L\u00e9elo en espa\u00f1ol aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to police, all six people were taken to area hospitals for their injuries, with at least one adult in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>SkyForce10 was over the scene at around 6:45 p.m. and saw that the fire was put out, but fire and emergency crews still at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rowhome-fire.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Fire Department said fire crews were called to the scene just before 6:15 p.m., where they found a heavy fire coming from the first floor of a two-story rowhome. <\/p>\n<p>The fire later spread to two neighboring rowhomes, leaving three rowhomes with severe damage, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>A fourth rowhome suffered some fire damage as well, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were able to get the fire under control by 6:32 p.m., officials said. <\/p>\n<p>Anthony Aquilino said his whole family was still inside their home as it became engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m trying to run here as fast as I can. I come home they don\u2019t let me on the block. I come and I see the damage. I\u2019m glad the dogs ok, but I see the damage and I\u2019m just lost for words,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. But my uncle was picking up the recycling bins and noticed it and tried to get everyone out the house,&#8221; Aquilino added. &#8220;By the time he went in the house to tell them my mom said the house is already engulfed in flames and heavy smoke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What caused the fire is not yet known, but Philadelphia Fire Marshalls are investigating. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m thinking all types of things. I\u2019m just glad everybody is ok,&#8221; Aquilino said. &#8220;That\u2019s all. Thank god.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECTION: Fire officials initially said seven were injured, but have since clarified that six people were injured. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six people were injured, including three kids, after several rowhomes caught fire at the 3400 block of Reach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,49316,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-139260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-kensington","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115014980330958408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}