Morning fire in northeastern Philadelphia row house kills woman and child, injures 5 others

Morning fire in Philly row house kills 2, hurts 5

PHILADELPHIA — A fire that ripped through a northeastern Philadelphia row house has killed a woman and a young boy and injured five other people, three of them critically.

Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers called the Saturday morning fire ‘horrific’ and ‘fast-moving.’ He says the woman and child were trapped on the second floor of the Frankford neighborhood home and died despite efforts by firefighters to reach them in the flames.

Ayers says four adults were taken to Temple Hospital, where two of the women were in critical condition. He says a child taken to St. Christopher’s Hospital was also in critical condition.

Ayers says investigators haven’t been able to find any smoke detectors in the home.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.