The flames shot o from underneath the sidewalkn Center City Philadelphia wires and Electrical Equipment caut fire, spewing not only flames, but thick ong smoke into the 2100 block of walnut street a at th hour, 90 customers are still without power. It the is thursday night and theig story on action news tonight is fi underground. Action News Reporter chad pradelli is live at the e tonight, chad, what is the situation e no reporter yeah jim, peco crews are stl on the scene trying to resre power to dozens of customers. Earlier tonight four hundred customers were without por but as you mentioned peco tells me it is down to 90. Youan see e on the th 2100 block of walnut. Now elr tonight several buildings in th miate area were evacuated but the Police Department tells me that everyone is allowed back in their hom although, some without power and heat. Underground fire sent tck black smoke billowing out of the drains and manholes. The residents on e100 blockf walnut we aled out of their home
Without power. It the is thursday night, and the big story on action news tonight is fire underground. Action News Reporter chad pradelli is live at the scene tonight, chad, what is the situation there now. Reporter yeah jim, peco crews are still on the scene trying to restore power to dozens of customers. Earlier tonight four hundred customers were without power but as you mentioned peco tells me it is down to 90. You can see crews on the the 2100 block of walnut. Now earlier tonight several buildings in this immediate area were evacuated but the Police Department tells me that everyone is allowed back in their homes although, some without power and heat. Underground fire sent thick, black smoke billowing out of the drains and manholes. The residents on the 2100 block of walnut were startled out of their homes. All of a sudden there was just a fire fighter incoming on my door telling me to get out. Reporter Amber Woodward said she panic, called her boyfriend and tried to grab a few it
Heres a look at radar. Showers currently pmoving through. Right now, maybe sprinkles in parts of south jersey. Thats really about it. Should not be causing any problems on the roadways. I think well have another area of rain that will start to move in, mostly for the poconos and Lehigh Valley coming up in the next hour. For today, heres a look at the temperatures. This morning, we have temperatures around 60 degrees. The rain will move through. It will be gone by 8 00. For the main part of the commute i think it will be nice and dry. Temperatures by 8 00 a. M. 58 degrees. Now watch as we go through the afternoon. By lunch time, we are only going to be in the midtolow 60s. Yesterday around lunch time, already in the 70s. Today will be noticeably cooler. This is even going to carry over into your weekend. We have a cool weekend forecast in store for you. Another chance of rain over part of your weekend. Ill show you that forecast coming up. A check on the roadways. Katy zachry. Good morn
Meteorologist kate bilo on the sky deck for right now to explain how the conditions are helping foul these fires kate. We felt it for the past few days that warm dry air thats been in place when you get conditions like this, conditions are ripe for forest fires usually mid march is when the season begins. Were hitting it early certainly hitting the warm temperatures a bit early as well. Unfortunately, fire risks will be elevated again tomorrow. Take look at some of these fire danger bullet points hi especially in knowledge, warm dry air weve plenty of that. Low relative humidity. Breezy conditions. We felt that today and tomorrow the breeze will be from a different direction but it will be strong again in the afternoon, very dry air moving in and that means fires could spread quickly. Especially again with the change in within direction. Nothing watch as we head into the day tomorrow. Fire risk again elevated. Today was record breaker. 82 degrees the high in philadelphia. Breaking the
Take a live look along i95 near the girard point bridge. Thats good news for people in that area. We have Live Team Coverage of todays snowfall. Lets begin with nbc 10 first alert meteorologist bill henley. Hi, bill. Hey, katy. Temperatures have been climbing very slowly, conditions improving. Still plenty of clouds but you can see that the snow has stopped in philadelphia. And we will see that temperature at 34 degrees increase. The wind is starting to pick up, now the winds up to 18 miles an hour this afternoon theyre already there. Radar shows snow now in new jersey, but its really ending in a hurry in delaware too, just Sussex County right along the coast is seeing a little bit of very light snow. Then its the shore from cape may to Atlantic City. This is now light snow. This is where weve seen some of the heaviest snow during the day today on those grassy surfaces as you mentioned up to five inches of snow has been reported. Most of the area saw less than that and certainly less o