Were there any fatalities in the five-alarm fire that destroyed the NE Philadelphia apartment building?”
A 64-year-old unemployed restaurant worker and a 21-year-old laid-off salesman were among at least 80 people left homeless by a five-alarm fire that gutted a 41-unit apartment building in Northeast Philadelphia before dawn Sunday. Nineteen people were taken to three hospitals after some of them leapt out of windows in the three-story Austin Manor Apartments on Rising Sun Avenue near Tyson Street. A fire official at the scene said three of the people injured were in critical condition at area hospitals. Tom Foley, CEO of the five-county Southeast Pennsylvania chapter of the American Red Cross, who reported the number of people hospitalized, said “close to 60 people” were also transferred to a temporary shelter at Northeast High School. As he spoke in a stairwell at the school, Foley said he assumed that others, besides those hospitalized and those at the shelter, had gone directly to friends and families. Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers said that the fire was reported about 4:30 a.m. and
Northeast Phila. apartment building destroyed by fire By Walter F. Naedele INQUIRER STAFF WRITER A 64-year-old unemployed restaurant worker and a 21-year-old laid-off salesman were among at least 80 people left homeless by a five-alarm fire that gutted a 41-unit apartment building in Northeast Philadelphia before dawn Sunday. Nineteen people were taken to three hospitals after some of them leapt out of windows in the three-story Austin Manor Apartments on Rising Sun Avenue near Tyson Street. A fire official at the scene said three of the people injured were in critical condition at area hospitals. Tom Foley, CEO of the five-county Southeast Pennsylvania chapter of the American Red Cross, who reported the number of people hospitalized, said “close to 60 people” were also transferred to a temporary shelter at Northeast High School. As he spoke in a stairwell at the school, Foley said he assumed that others, besides those hospitalized and those at the shelter, had gone directly to friends
A five-alarm fire ripped through an apartment building in Northeast Philadelphia, injuring more than a dozen people and leaving many more homeless. There is no word yet on conditions or possible fatalties in the fast moving blaze at the Austin Manor Apartment building on the the 7000 block of Rising Sun Avenue in the Burlhome section.
