Breaking News: Philadelphia building collapses, explosion reported

[brassmonkey]

(Reuters) - One building in Philadelphia collapsed on Monday and authorities said the cause could be an explosion but would not confirm local media reports that there were at least six injuries.

The incident comes a little more than a month after another Philadelphia building collapsed, killing six people shopping at a neighboring thrift store.

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[Rochard]

What's up over there? Makes me really confident flying into Phili next month...

[brassmonkey]

What's up over there? Makes me really confident flying into Phili next month...

just keep that policy current

[Tom_PM]

Well.. how many guns.. no.. what race was the... hmm.. well shit, how can I doctor up a report about this?!

Seriously though, I hope there was nobody killed or injured.. seems too early to know much.

[brassmonkey]

Well.. how many guns.. no.. what race was the... hmm.. well shit, how can I doctor up a report about this?!

Seriously though, I hope there was nobody killed or injured.. seems too early to know much.

update:

(CNN) -- At least eight people were sent to hospitals after several homes collapsed in Philadelphia Monday morning, apparently after an explosion, a fire official said.

A contractor was doing rehab work in a vacant home when it collapsed, Deputy Fire Chief Robert Coyne told reporters. The two adjacent houses are also collapsing, he said.

Witnesses told CNN affiliate KYW that they heard an explosion and smelled gas after the blast. Coyne said authorities were still investigating what caused the homes to collapse, but it appeared that there was an explosion.

The entire block rumbled, sending neighbors out into the street.

"I was sitting in the house and I heard a big bang," Mike McGraw told KYW. "The door slammed and the TV went out."

His son, Mike McGraw Jr., said he saw the buckled buildings and watched firefighters hosing down a man who had been burned.

"They threw this baby out the window because the girl was on fire and the fireman had to catch the baby," he said.

Coyne said one person was in critical condition and 25 people had been evacuated from the south Philadelphia neighborhood.

Aerial footage of the scene showed a large pile of rubble in between two buildings.

Last month, a four-story wall of a vacant building in Philadelphia collapsed onto an adjacent Salvation Army thrift store, killing six people and injuring 13.

Authorities charged crane operator Sean Benschop, 42, with involuntary manslaughter and other related charges.

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[media]

I don't understand them sensationalizing it as a Building Collapse, it was an explosion in a house.. calling it a building makes you think that it's something like an office building, many stories tall.. You're like OMG, then you click over to it, and it's a freaking two story house/apartment.. this happens all the time with meth labs, gas leaks.. electrical fires that cause explosions, contractor mistakes etc.. Must not be much other news out there...

[_Richard_]

glp is reporting several houses have collapsed

[PornDiscounts-V]

I like the eyewitness quotes. You can tell they are uneducated shit for brains.

[brassmonkey]

I like the eyewitness quotes. You can tell they are uneducated shit for brains.

dave thomas was uneducated and look what he did

[fogfever]

Take a drive around Philadelphia and you will see the buildings and houses in some neighborhoods are so run down looks like they can collapse any minute.