UPDATE JANUARY 7, 2022:
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether a 5-year-old who was playing with a lighter set a Christmas tree on fire, sparking a conflagration that killed 12 family members in a Philadelphia rowhome. That’s according to a search warrant application revealed Thursday (Jan. 6, 2022). City and federal investigators are working to determine the cause of the city’s deadliest single blaze in more than a century. They declined to speculate on a possible cause, adding the fire scene is complex. The fire took the lives of eight children and four adults. Officials have said 26 people had been staying in the three-story brick duplex.
JANUARY 5, 2022:
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia fire officials say two sisters and several of their children were among 12 people killed when a fire tore a rowhome that apparently had no working smoke detectors. Eight children lost their lives. Officials say it’s the city’s deadliest single fire in at least a century. The blaze broke out Wednesday morning as 26 people were staying at the three-story duplex, which is public housing. As many as eight people were able to escape. The cause of the fire is still being investigated. The public housing authority says the home’s smoke alarms were inspected annually and at least two were replaced in 2020.
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