Philadelphia claims his life and a civilian. Good evening everyone, im nam natasha brown. Thank you so much for joining us that fire broke out just before 9 00 a. M. On north colorado avenue. Lieutenant letourneau died while inside the burning home when part of the structure collapsed. Eyewitness News Reporter Alicia Nieves is live in springfield where his career first began. Alicia. Reporter natasha, that fallen firefighter is from here springfield and he not only served in the Philadelphia Fire Department for 11 years, but he did also serve here at this Springfield Fire Company as a volunteer firefighter for 25 plus years. Since he was a teenager. You can see outside the firehouse there is black bunting put up by his fellow firefight firefighters here. Now in his memory. Today grief grips some of the bravest men and women in our region as they mourn the loss of one much their firefighter matt letourneau. 11 07 this morning, he was declared dead. And we are without words. Reporter phi
Plus years. Since he was a teenager. You can see outside the firehouse there is black bunting put up by his fellow firefight firefighters here. Now in his memory. Today grief grips some of the bravest men and women in our region as they mourn the loss of one much their firefighter matt letourneau. 11 07 this morning, he was declared dead. And we are without words. Reporter philadelphia fire commissioner adam thiel trying to hold it together outside Temple University hospital where the fallen firefighter was pronounced dead. Lieutenant letourneau called with fellow philadelphia firefighters 8 00 in the morning to battle this blaze on north colorado avenue in north philadelphia. As he was inside the smoke filled row home, there was a collapse and he was trapped. He was never alone. The rescue effort started almost immediately. Reporter for half an hour more than 100 firefighters trying to get one of their own out and they did but the 11year veteran of philadelphias Engine Company 45 had
Pottstown 1 and philadelphia tied the record of 4. This morning a lot of my twitter followers were telling me how cold it was i said i need visual confirmation. So they started sending me in pictures. Get a load of this. Glassboro new jersey. Here is mullica hill. And i could have showed you about 20 ofese. Everybody started sending these in. It was really, really cold first thing this morning. Temperatures are back above zero now but the wind chills are below zero. It feels like 19 below in the poconos with a wind chill warning in effect until 10 00 a. M. 7 in philadelphia and 5 in millville. Forecast for today, well see mostly sunny skies out here. Its not going to be quite as harsh as yesterday. The winds should ease up a bit after lunch. 19 degrees is the forecasted high. This will be the last of the bonechilling frigid cold air. When i come back in just a few minutes, well talk about the milder temperatures heading this way and the accuweather 7day forecast and a little mix arrivi
A graffiti message spray painted on their garage and now theyre fighting back. Tonight police are investigating that as a possible hate crime. Good evening omegas dean. Im ukee washington. Vandals spray painted the home on east hudson avenue. But as Eyewitness News reporter david spunt shows you the family decided to send message of their own. Wow, this is a hate crime at our house. Reporter Cape May County resident erin delong demands to know who wrote this on her garage door. Her 14yearold daughter emily is gay. And her 17yearold miranda seen here on the left is by sexual. Theyre good kids. Theyre friendly kids. To see somebody go against them just for who they are, for who they love is awful. She called Lower Township Police to file a report. Hours after discovering the graffiti they turn the negative into something positive this is what the garage looks like now. The garage was going to say im gay why in the world would we have it say im gay in that horrible hand writing and ugly g
She has the most accurate neighborhood forecast. Nice to be bearer of good news. No rain, no snow. Were talking temperatures that crank up as we head into your afternoon. If you have plans to be outside or kind of wanting to get outside this is the weekend to do it. Its a cold start this morning. If youre trying to get an Early Morning run good to do a midday run. 30 is your temperature right now in philadelphia. 27 over pennsylvania suburbs. 28 in new jersey. 25 in Lehigh Valley. Delaware youre checking in at 29 trees. Notice winds they are calm currently. Were going to see quite a few changes with the warm up and winds picking up as we get into this afternoon. Look at these forecast highs. 65 in. 61 in the suburbs. 63 in new jersey. Upper 50s to around 60 in the Lehigh Valley. And 65 for parts of delaware. Youll little warmer in southern delaware, a little cooler in northern delaware. Mostly sunny across the board and we just get a little breezy as we get later into the day. As for y