Less than 24 hours after a woman was killed in a house fire in North Philadelphia, flames rekindled at the home and spread to the house next door, NBC10 confirmed.
On Thursday, around 4:40 a.m., firefighters and police responded to a house fire on the 6200 block of Ogontz Avenue. When they arrived, they found a woman — believed to be in her 60s — who was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:52 a.m.
On Thursday, around 11 p.m., less than 24 hours later, flames rekindled at the same home on Ogontz Avenue and spread to a house next door, officials said. Video shows the second home engulfed in flames.
“I come out here and there’s just flames shooting out of this building, and you could just feel the heat from the building even across the street,” a witness, who did not want to be identified, told NBC10. “And it was something man. Like holy cow.”
Firefighters were able to bring the flames under control. No injuries have been reported in connection to the second fire.
Investigators told NBC10 that flames appeared to rekindle at the home. Embers can smolder all day, be completely buried and then gain enough fuel to reignite after hours of going undetected, officials said.
Officials have not yet revealed the woman’s identity or the cause of the initial fire. They continue to investigate.
