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On the morning of January 5, 2022, a fire tore through a row house converted into apartments in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Twelve people died, nine of them children, [2] and two others were injured. Five additional people escaped from the first floor unit with minor injuries. [1] [3] [4] The fire happened just ...
Centralia mine fire. Steam rising through a fissure in the ground in the closed-off area of former Pennsylvania Route 61 in 2010. The melted snow, which covered the ground around it, shows areas where heat is escaping from the ground below. The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire which has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal ...
44. On the morning of January 9, 2022, a high-rise fire killed seventeen people, [1] including eight children, [2] at the Twin Parks North West, Site 4, high-rise apartment building in the Bronx, New York City, United States. [3] Forty-four people were injured, and thirty-two with life-threatening injuries were sent to five different borough ...
Ruptured elbow pipe from Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery, determined to be the root cause to the refinery's fire and explosions in June 2019. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released its final report on the incident on October 11, 2022. The report stated that a corroded elbow pipe, installed in 1973, ruptured and caused the initial leak.
0. On June 11, 2023, [1] a tanker truck carrying gasoline caught fire beneath the overpass that carries Interstate 95 (I-95) at the Pennsylvania Route 73 (PA 73, Cottman Avenue) interchange in the Tacony neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia. The extreme heat caused the northbound lanes to collapse and damaged the southbound lanes, closing ...
The 2023–24 Philadelphia 76ers season was the 75th season for the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). [1] On May 16, 2023, the 76ers fired head coach Doc Rivers after three seasons with the team. [2] On June 1, 2023, the 76ers hired Nick Nurse as their head coach. [3]
80+. USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) (formerly CVA-67 ), the only ship of her class, is an aircraft carrier, formerly of the United States Navy. Considered a supercarrier, [4] she is a variant of the Kitty Hawk class, and the last conventionally-powered carrier built for the Navy, [5] as all carriers since have had nuclear propulsion.
The extra income from the Phillies was offset by the crowded baseball schedule tying up the park for nearly all of the summer, so it affected the A's bottom line very little. The Phillies' first game at Shibe Park was a split doubleheader against Boston on July 4, and they finished the season last, 24½ games behind the seventh place Brooklyn ...