At Least 13 Dead, Including 7 Children, In Philadelphia House Fire
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Firefighters arrived Wednesday morning to smoke billowing from the second floor of a three-story house that had been converted into two apartments.
A large house fire in Philadelphia early Wednesday killed 13 people, including seven children, and sent two people to hospitals, fire officials said.
Officials said at a news conference later in the morning that there were four smoke detectors in the building but that none were operating.
Firefighters and police responded to the fire at a three-story rowhouse in the city's Fairmount neighborhood around 6:40 a.m. and found flames coming from the second-floor windows, fire officials said. The house had been converted into two apartments, police said.
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