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Several fire trucks were taken off the streets in Philadelphia during the recession, limiting coverage in Roxborough, Frankford, Old City and South Philadelphia. Now, for the first time in more than a decade, fire trucks are heading back to four fire companies in the city. NBC10’s Matt DeLucia has the details.

More people have died in Philadelphia fires this year than at any time since 2014, statistics show. On Wednesday, the fire commissioner addressed the increase during a graduation ceremony of an unusually large class of new firefighters. The 121 new hires allow the department to open up stations that have been closed since the Great Recession a decade ago.

A husband and wife died in a house fire that injured their adult daughter and son-in-law.

Two brothers who ran a failing Old City Philadelphia hookah bar are now accused of torching their business in a fire that spread to neighboring businesses and apartments, causing millions of dollars in damage and uprooting lives.

More than three months after a blast at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in South Philadelphia, Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel says the release of chemicals is under control.

A massive, two-alarm fire, ripped through a church in Philadelphia’s Parkside neighborhood. Aaron Baskerville has the latest on the investigation and takes a look at cellphone video showing a man and a propane tank on the roof moments before the blaze. Meanwhile, Rosemary Connors speaks to the church’s pastor.

Recovery efforts remain underway more than one month after a massive explosion and subsequent fire rocked the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery and nearby communities.

Twelve people, including children, were hurt as flames tore through a North Philadelphia home overnight in a fire scene the top city firefighter described as “chaotic.”

The family of six, including four children no older than 11, who perished in a blaze that tore through their Harlem apartment earlier this month died of smoke inhalation and thermal burns, the city’s medical examiner announced Wednesday.

Three residents, including two brothers, died as flames tore through a Philadelphia home overnight.

One person is dead and another is missing after a fire swept through a home in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday evening, firefighters said.

The NBC10 Investigators found that ambulance response times in Philly are even slower than previously thought. George Spencer shows us why.

Philadelphia Fire Department records show that 66 percent of all EMS arrivals to 9-1-1 emergencies take longer than 9 minutes. What will it take to improve their times? The fire commissioner talked with NBC10 Investigators.

A fire that destroyed a building in Philadelphia’s historic Old City neighborhood in February 2018, despite the efforts of hundreds of firefighters, was determined to be intentionally set, federal officials said Friday.

A smoky Friday morning South Philadelphia row home fire left a 3-year-old boy and his mother dead inside and four other family members who escaped hurt.

A building partially collapsed onto an adjacent excavation site Friday, leading to a rescue along North Philadelphia’s Ridge Avenue. Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel praised the rescue efforts.

Dozens of Boston-area college students are without a home after a massive fire Saturday. Up to 70 students were displaced by the fire that ripped through a 5-story building in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Officials responded to 104 Hemenway Street, which is home to Northeastern University and Berklee College of Music students, just after 3:15 p.m. Saturday.

As the loved ones of three family members who were found dead nearly three days after a fire tore through their home continue to demand answers, city officials revealed what they know so far.

A family is demanding answers after three of their loved ones were found dead in a fire days after firefighters put out the flames.