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PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia is seeking to dismiss a federal lawsuit spawning from a fatal apartment house fire in Philadelphia, which took place in January 2022 and caused the deaths of 12 people, for failure to state claims upon which relief could be granted.

PHILADELPHIA – A fatal apartment house fire in Philadelphia, which took place in January 2022 and caused the deaths of 12 people, has not only spawned a state court wrongful death lawsuit, but now a federal court civil rights lawsuit.

The first lawsuit filed over a Christmas tree fire in Philadelphia – which killed 12 members of an extended family last winter – accuses the city's Housing Agency of lax oversight of the three-story rowhouse and a California company of distributing an unsafe pocket lighter that children can easily use.

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The first lawsuit filed over a Christmas tree fire that killed 12 family members faults the Philadelphia Housing Agency for lax oversight of the property.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The first lawsuit filed over a Christmas tree fire in Philadelphia — which killed 12 members of an extended family last winter — accuses the citys Housing

On the one year anniversary of one of the deadliest fires in Philadelphia’s history, a headstone was unveiled honoring the three adults and nine children who...

Nearly one year after the tragic Fairmount fire that killed 12 people, including 9 children, the U.S. will mandate 10-year, tamper-resistant smoke alarms in public housing units. The measure, introduced by Sen. Bob Casey and Rep. Madeleine Dean, was included in the $1.7 trillion government spending bill signed into law by President Joe Biden on Thursday.

PHILADELPHIA — In an extraordinary public display of grief, the family of 12 people killed in a rowhouse fire in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood held a funeral service at Temple University

Funeral services were held Monday for nine children and three adults who died in a Philadelphia fire five days into the new year, the deadliest blaze in the city in more than a century.