County startled neighbors so much they woke up last night as flames spread to a. cgi warehousd a dozen cars this is the opportunity of calwin where the future of the Fire Department is in question. Its a story the nbc 10 investigators have been following. Harry hairston live with more on the community. Reporter it was a big one, flames shooting high into the sky. Explosions could be heard for blocks around. Right now there is still no word on what caused that blaze. But i can tell you why firefighters are upset they would not respond to a fire blocks away from the fire company. The Colwyn Fire Company president says this is the biggest fire hes seen in more than 20 years. Maurice clark is the president of company 92. He believes politics kept his firefighters from responding to last nights warehouse fire. My concern is that council and the state is not doing what they were told 92 they were going to do, which is ensure the trucks, give us workmens comp and ensure the building, which the bore borough has been doing for years. Reporter the firefighters do not have workmens compensation. Were not putting men out there without workmens comp. Reporter nearby darby borough has to cover. The First Company to respond with several others. Last week the investigators told you about darby sending colwyn a 30day notice. The Council Member expressed his concerns today. Sure, its a safety concern. Without a fire company, its a safety concern. Last night an example . Last night, it was an example. Reporter the boroughs under a state emergency act to get finances back on track. Officials recommended they shut down the department and say the firefighters are not qualified to do the job. Question again, you could have used extra man power from here . The more the merrier. And any extra man power would have been appreciated, yes. Reporter well, as we said the fire Company Believes politics knocked them out of the job. Theyre hoping politics work in their favor tomorrow. Theyve been handing out these flyers to residents in the area wanting them to show up at tomorrows Council Meeting to urge council to vote the firefighters insurance for Workers Compensation and get them back on the job. For the investigators, harry hairston, nbc 10. One of six People Killed during a violent stretch in philadelphia the brother of an nbc 10 player. Tuesdays murders scattered across west philadelphia, grays ferry, east falls. A victim, dion waitewaiters yo brother. Police havent said which scene involved his brother. The oklahoma thunder released a statement saying we were saddened to hear the news of the passing of dions brother he has our full support. Dion and his family are in our thought and prayers during this difficult time. Philadelphia Police Identified the suspect they believe shot a teenage employee at a churchs chicken. Investigators are looking for this man, ronald graham. It shows the moment before police say graham shot a 19yearold employee inside the tioga fastfood restaurant sunday. Graham got into an argument with the employees brother who also works there. Graham then left the restaurant, came back, and allegedly shot the wrong brother. The victim is in stable condition, at Temple University hospital. Police are analyzing this video to help them learn more what led to a deadly high speed crash in north philadelphia. Police say the driver lost control near second and cecil b. More, hitting three light poles, a tree, and different buildings before the car burst into flames the driver badly burned. Investigators are not been able to identify him. The crash left debris scattered aen lo the road including gift cards and up. S in packaging. A witness told nbc 10 what he saw. Tried to get to the car but i couldnt, it was too hot. He was already dead, i think he was already dead when he hit the wall, because it ignited, boom it blew up. Investigators are looking into whether the car may have been stolen. Decision 2016. Coverage and former republican president ial hopeful Carly Fiorina is throwing support behind ted cruzs campaign. Fiorina spoke at a rally. She voted for him in her home state of virginia last week. It is time now to unite behind the one man who can beat donald trump, who can beat Hillary Clinton, who can beat the d. C. Cartel. It is time to unite behind ted cruz. Fiorina ended her own Campaign Last month after failing to earn enough votes in the early voting state sn state. Donald trump won 3 of the 4 states that voted yesterday. Heres a look at last nights result. Trump picked up wins in the michigan and mississippi primaries as well as hawaii gop caucus. Cruz won idahos primary. Next weeks winner take all contest in florida could make or break marco rubios campaign. Hes been heavily campaigning in his home state after a rough night. He did not pick up any delegates from yesterdays contest and finished fourth behind john kasich in michigan and mississippi. Trump is calling on the Republican Party to unite around him as his campaign maintains its lead. Hell hold a rally in fayetteville, north carolina. Trump won the majority of states, yesterday his delegate lead over cruz grew by 15. Two Democratic Candidates will debate in miami fresh off of Bernie Sanders big upset over Hillary Clinton in michigan. Some say momentum has shifted after tuesdays win but hes more than 600 delegates behind clinton. The vermont senator won a narrow victory in a state where polls had showed him far behind clinton. The former secretary of state grabbed a commanding win in mississippis primary which boosted her delegate lead. Everything you need to know about decision 2016, go to nbc 10 app. Crews are sifting through rubble in seattle after a massive gas explosion here injured nine firefighters. The explosion levelled three businesses, a coffee house, restaurant, and a bike shop and it blew out windows as far as two blocks away. The blast happened as firefighters were on the scene investigating a leak. All their injuries are minor. Investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong. The clock is ticking. Now three days and seven hours away from a possible new Jersey Transit rail strike. Negotiators back at the bargaining table. Both sides saying theyve been making progress. New Jersey Transit says theres a dispute with the union over how service would be stopped in the event of the strike. Trains would gradually be taken out of service. More than 4,000 workers authorized a strike for sunday. Some 100,000 riders affected. That includes tens of thousands who would have to find a new way around. Live look at philadelphias 30th street station. New Jersey Transit, Atlantic City line runs between here and a. C. A strike would impact the stations at trenton, hamilton, princeton which people use to get to new york. Pennsylvanias ongoing budget battle has lawmakers accusing Governor Tom Wolf of Holding Education funds hostage. The house members held a News Conference calling on wolf to release the money to School Districts and back off his demands for increases in the state income tax. Wolf vetoed 3 billion in Education Funding in december as leverage for additional taxes to pay for increased state spending. Its not something that the people that i represent can afford. And the message that i get from my constituents is loud and clear, and that message is that you need to stand your ground and need to be certain that you dont allow this guy to just go crazy in terms of taxes. Governor wolfs press secretary tells nbc 10 golf wolf is working to balance a budget that makes historic investments in education at all levels and looks forward to continuing to work with republicans in the legislature to accomplish this. People in new jersey divide over whether the state should intervene. A bare majority, just 51 think the city should handle financial troubles on their own. 44 say new jersey should step in and take greater control. States split on whether to allow gambling outside ac. 44 favor moving casinos but 49 say stay in ac. People looking to put down root and buy a home in philadelphia could get help making that down payment. Wells fargo teaming up with local Community Organizations to launch 5 Million Program called neighborhood lift. The Program Provides matching down payment grants up to 7,500 for eligible home buyers. One woman says the program made her dream of owning a home a reality. I thought i was going to be a perpetual renter and i was okay until realizing having something you can take pride in feels good and its a big deal. Apply at sheraton hotel. The hotel will provide home buyer education sessions and littings of homes for sale. Were so excited about the warm weather, even has us ready to do spring cleaning. Mayor kenney, City Council President clark and Streets Department kicking off countdown to ninth annual philly spring cleanup. Register to volunteer. Everything from picking up playgrounds to painting vacant houses. Good people skill left in the community and work with the youth to get them pride in their neighborhoods. Philly spring cleanup is a month from today, april 9th. Find the link to sign up for a project on nbc 10 app. Look at the sun, shining brightly out there. Doug is back. I was in washington square. People are packed. Having their lunch on the grasp. Doug, i hope youre able to enjoy it before you came to work. We were on different squares. You had it covered. Everybody enjoying the outdoors. Fact at 80, april 9th the cleanup day, we may not be this warm in a month from now. Its very hard to get to this temperature during this time of the year. Right now, tannersville, Camel Back Mountain looking good. Skiing still going on. Enough snow. Its going to be tough. If youre thinking about skiing, springlike skiing. They will be dealing with cloud cover as we make our way in towards the weekend. Outside, nothing but sunshine across the region. Were going to continue to see sunshine. High temperature today, 82 degrees. Remember, average high is 50. And right now sitting at 80 degrees. Winds out of the southsouthwest, 14 miles an hour. South wind pushing numbers up. Take a look at record highs, its not just philly. It is everyone. Old record 73. We hit 82. Coatesville, 77. Wilmington 81. Allentown, old record 70. We have beaten that by 10 degrees. That is unheard of. You do not break records this big. This is whats going to continue to happen tomorrow, too. Still going highs tomorrow around 82 degrees. Out there now, 78 in allentown. 76 wilmington. 73 millville. Cooler but along the boardwalk, 72 down there towards Atlantic City. Hit the shore town, it is pretty nice. Across the midatlantic, new york city 71. Winchester, virginia. 81. D. C. 76. Norfolk 80. Warmth is there. Its everywhere. All of this sunshine, too. Were clear. New york, williams port, d. C. , all sunshine across the region. Look whats happening to the south. This is a major storm and a dangerous situation for places like texas, louisiana, arkansas. Upwards to 5 to 10 inches. Theyll see massive flooding. More pictures. More coming up at 5 00. Take a look at the rain. Normally a system down to the south would move along the skret stream towards our region. Were seeing warmer air but rain is not going to get in here. We are going to see a chance for showers but its going to stay on the warm side. Rain chances decreasing. That storm system to the south rains itself out and peters out down to the south. A couple of chances for rain but not talking about as much as theyre getting down there. Clear, a great night. 53 in philly. Up to 48 degrees to the north and west. Sunrise around 6 20. Through the afternoon, more sunshine. Another record high. 78 to 83. This is like a june forecast. Winds out of the southwest, 5 to 10. Even up to 10 to 20. 82 thursday. Cold front friday with more clouds but at 68. 64 saturday. Lessened cloud cover saturday. Not a bad saturday with a high of 64. Sunday High Temperature again at 64. Few chances for showers on sunday after we spring forward one hour. Again, sunset sunday night, 7 14. Doug must feel like he landed in miami instead of philly. Is this philly . Or heaven. Carbs may do more than expand your waistline. Worse than cigarettes. This cancer connection coming up. Plus candy you dont want to find in your childs bookbag. More about the druglaced treat found in one pennsylvania school. Bird battle brewing in bucks county. Giant bird taking over one community. What the town is trying to do to get them to take off. Straight ahead, seventh grader who says his science project proves tom bradys innocence in the deflategate controversy. Closing numbers from wall street. Up day. Gabby douglas is going to let the world watch as she attempts to make history in rio. The rein ig olympic allaround champion and her family doing a reality show titled Douglas Family gold. The show centers on douglas training in h. Ohio where she lives. It debuts on the Oxygen Network may 25th, the oxygen net work is owned by nbc universal. The games august 4th. We are 148 days away from the action. Nbc 10 is the only place to see it all. I cant wait to hear that olympic music. Cue it. Count on complete coverage leading up to the rio games in august. Dougs over there. Tom brady has received some deflategate vindication from an unlikely source. How about a seventh grader from massachusetts. Ben goodell set out to move the nfl wrong. It was roger and the nfl that found tom brady and the patriots intentionally deflated footballs. He subjected balls to different conditions and climates and found the air pressure in the balls could fluctuate substantially depending on the weather. The findings earned ben a top prize in the science fair. Its not about the Scientific Evidence anymore. Its just about the nfl enforcing rules. It should be noted bens school is about an hour away from Gillette Stadium where the patriots play. We dont know whether hes a fan. I have a feeling he probably is. Not only will he get the top prize for the science fair but a ticket from tom brady to attend one of the games. That could be coming down the road. Sounds like something brady would do. A substitute teacher trading a classroom for a jail cell. Problem other teachers noticed. The dangerous ingredient in the gummi bears found inside a pennsylvania school. Coming up at 5 00, police saved this mans life after he overdosed on heroin. That left officers asking, now what . A new plan to help those dealing with addiction. How it could help someone you love on nbc 10 news at 5 00. A lot of people around new jersey and beyond have heavy hearts today. State police announced funeral arrangements for trooper shawn cullen. Cullen died after a passing driver hit him monday night. A celebration of life will be held sunday. Cullen will be laid to rest monday. Cydney long live where Law Enforcement is preparing themselves for another funeral. Reporter jacqueline, excruciating, thats how one new Jersey State Police trooper described how the Law Enforcement family is feeling. Especially with cullens death. It is one of three trooper deaths in the last ten months. All of three young men in Law Enforcement under 31 years old. May 30th, 2015, trooper Anthony Raspa killed when a cruiser struck a deer. Eli macarson killed when his car hit a slick spot and went off the road. Now shawn cullen struck as he responded to a crash monday. All of them just starting their careers in Law Enforcement, all killed in or near their cars. New Jersey State Police has suffered three line of duty deaths in the last ten months. It is really been a bad year. Reporter state police and local departments where cullen served all working with heavy hearts. On thursday, mt. Holly police with westhampton planned a candlelight vigil at academy road fallen officer memorial. Well be helping the family through funeral arrangements. We dont bury a trooper and move on. The family of a trooper is always a member of the state police family. Reporter police tell me they reach out to previously fallen trooper families for one parents and widow of eli whose funeral shy of three months ago, two days before christmas. The problem with being a police officer, its an inherently dainherent ly dangerous job. Reporter 70 new jersey line of duty deaths, 52, vast majority, involved a vehicle, motorcycle pursuit or vehicular assault. State police dont know yet if a move over Law Violation may have factored into the death monday. Some local Police Departments tell me they will campaign to remind motorists of the law that was acted in 2009, enacted to save lives of emergency responders. Its punishable up to 500 in fines. More coming up at 6 00. Sid n. Long, nbc 10 news. New information on a house fire that injured three people in montgomery county. The flames broke out in a second floor bedroom. One of the victims is at the burn center. The others recovering. An investigator trying to figure out what started the fire. Police are hoping you help track down a man killing two women two years ago. They released this mugshot of Ronald Dorsey, he should be considered armed and dangerous. Wanted for murdering two women. Both shot to death inside th