{"id":413424,"date":"2025-11-29T18:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/413424\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T18:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:53:11","slug":"man-dead-after-flames-tear-through-strawberry-mansion-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/413424\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after flames tear through Strawberry Mansion home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/man-found-dead-flames-tear-philadelphia-home-ridge-avenue\/18223696\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6abc<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>A man was killed Friday evening when a fire tore through a home in the Strawberry Mansion section of Philadelphia and spread to a neighboring house, officials said.\n<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out around 4:45 p.m. near 33rd Street and Ridge Avenue.\n<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Fire Chief Bill Demski said crews arrived within four minutes to find heavy flames on the second and third floors, and reports that someone was still inside.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe arrived four minutes after the initial phone call to find heavy fire on the second and third floor, with occupants saying there was somebody still inside,\u201d Demski said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Two police officers tried to rescue the person before firefighters arrived, but were unable to reach him.\n<\/p>\n<p>Two other people escaped the home, but a third person \u2013 a man about 40 years old \u2013 was found dead at the top of the stairs on the second floor, Demski said. The victim has not been identified.\n<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters spent about 40 minutes extinguishing the flames. The fire spread to the home next door, which is now uninhabitable. At least one person from that house was displaced.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a single alarm with extra resources added. The place had some unique features that allowed the fire to spread to the house next door,\u201d Demski said.\n<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story originally appeared on 6abc. A man was killed Friday evening when a fire tore through a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":413425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,19717,1448,2830,1311,21989,37068,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-413424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fatal-fire","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-fire-department","14":"tag-strawberry-mansion","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115634503945582155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413424","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=413424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}