WPVI Action News 6PM March 7, 2017
Afternoon. And firefighters tried to put a flame retardant chemical on the flames but with the wires energized it just reunited. Huge plumes of spoke blanketed north philadelphia and some were evacuated. The fire commissioner explained why the fire burned so long. Before they could douse it with water. We are going to end up putting the fire out the old fashion way without water but we have to make sure the power is shut off. So we have unmanned water streams and putting up a water pipe with the aerial ladders and when we have confirmation that the power is off from peco we can start to put ou...