Three sisters and their nine children died in the January 2022 fire started by a child playing with a lighter in a Philadelphia apartment.
PHILADELPHIA — The first lawsuit filed over a Christmas tree fire in Philadelphia — which— accuses the city’s Housing Agency of lax oversight of the three-story rowhouse and a California company of distributing an unsafe pocket lighter that children can easily use.
Mourners pay their respects for the victims of a deadly row house fire during funeral services at Temple University in Philadelphia, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. owned by the housing agency near the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As many as 14 people had lived in the upstairs four-bedroom unit at times, as the family grew over the decade they lived there.Philadelphia Housing Authority’s Kelvin Jeremiah chokes up during the PHA press conference at scene of the fatal fire in Fairmount. .
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