Philadelphia

Woman Hurt in Kingsessing House Blaze

Medics rushed a Philadelphia woman to a local hospital after she suffered minor injuries in a fire that tore through a home in the city's Kingsessing neighborhood.

Crews responded to a call of heavy smoke and flames in the back of a house near 50th Street and Kingsessing Avenue around 2:30 a.m., officials said.

They got the blaze under control a short time later.

A woman, in her 50s, was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center for smoke inhalation, authorities said. She is expected to be okay.

An investigation into the cause of the fire is underway.

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