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City of Philadelphia

West Rush Street

Newsworking visited the city of Philadelphia for the past two Saturday’s and went to 2 house fires and visited the firehouse of Pipeline 50, Ladder 12, Battalion 8 and Medic 22.

On Saturday evening March 25th, we responded to a house fire on West Rush Street just a block from the firehouse and shot the video shown below.  Firefighters rescued a man from the second floor of the burning rowhome.

A week later on Saturday April 2nd, we responded to Weymouth Street for a dwelling and shot the video below:

While visiting the firehouse in North Philly, Battalion 8 was called to a dwelling fire as the second in chief.  Here’s the video of that response:

On Sunday April 3rd, we took in a factory fire in Reading, Pennsylvania.  The old factory went to 3-alarms and was demolished the following day.

Continue to follow Newsworking as we will be taking you to the city of Philadelphia on regular basis to bring our fans a more detailed look at the Philadelphia Fire Department and the busy companies that cover North Philly.