A Philadelphia firefighter died Saturday morning when a building collapsed after a fire, a city fire official said.
Five other people trapped, four firefighters and a licensing and inspection worker, were rescued from the sinking, said First Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy.
[Original story, published at 7:39 a.m. ET]
A rescue operation is underway to rescue trapped firefighters when a building collapsed Saturday morning in northern Philadelphia, the city’s fire department said in a tweet.
“So far, several have been rescued and transported to hospitals,” says the Philadelphia Fire Department tweet, published at 6:05 a.m. ET. The department was still working to rescue others, he added.
The sinking at 300 W. Indiana St. in the city’s Fairhill neighborhood occurred during a fire response, the department said. Details of a fire, sinking or housing of the building were not immediately available.
At the scene, firefighters and others stayed close or walked around a large pile, rather than at the height of the head, of metal, wood and other rubble, showed the video of WPVI, a subsidiary of CNN .
At least nine agencies were assisting with recovery efforts, including Philadelphia police and the American Red Cross, the fire department added on Twitter.
This is a story in development and will be updated.