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Philly fire: 5-year-old may have caused deadly blaze, warrant says
Fox News
A child playing with a lighter may have been the cause of a Philadelphia Housing Authority rowhome fire that killed 12 people this Wednesday, according to a search warrant application.
"I know that we will hopefully be able to provide a specific origin and cause to this fire and to provide some answers to the loved ones and, really, to the city," Matthew Varisco, who leads the Philadelphia branch of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said during a news briefing Thursday afternoon.
The fire torched the three-story apartment complex, located at 869 North 23rd Street in Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood, killing 12 people — four adults and eight children — and hospitalizing two others, FOX 29 reported. It is unclear how many people escaped the fire. It was initially reported that 13 people had died, but that figure was corrected Wednesday evening.