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Philadelphia firefighters battle multiple-alarm warehouse fire

Video from the scene in the Kensington neighborhood shows fire through the roof of a former auto body shop

By Bill Carey
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PHILADELPHIA — Firefighters extinguished a three-alarm fire that swept through a vacant warehouse in Philadelphia.

Fire companies responded to reports of a fire on the 3000 block of Ruth Street around 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 13 and quickly struck a second alarm, FOX 29 reported.


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Assistant Deputy Fire Commissioner Derek Bowmer told NBC Philadelphia that the structure was a 30-foot-by-100-foot garage that might have been an auto body shop.

Officials said no one was inside the building at the time of the fire.

A third alarm was struck around 8:15 a.m., resulting in over 120 firefighters on the scene.

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