{"id":826515,"date":"2026-05-27T23:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/826515\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:17:16","slug":"partial-building-collapse-closes-part-of-kensington-avenue-in-philadelphia-emergency-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/826515\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial building collapse closes part of Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia, emergency officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews are responding to a partial building collapse in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kensington neighborhood Wednesday evening, fire officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 3 was over the scene on the 3100 block of Kensington Avenue around 6:30 p.m., where the building&#8217;s roof appeared to be collapsing. Fire officials say the building was condemned.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Kensington Avenue is closed. No injuries have been reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/kensington-partial-collapse.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"The roof of a building on Kensington Avenue is collapsing in this image from Chopper 3 \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews are responding to a partial building collapse in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kensington neighborhood Wednesday evening, fire officials said.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":826516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,21883,49316,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-826515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-building-collapse","tag-kensington","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826515","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=826515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}