Man scales down Philadelphia high-rise to flee smoky hearth

PHILADELPHIA — A person scaled a number of flooring down the aspect of a 19-story constructing in Philadelphia to flee a hearth that injured 4 residents and three law enforcement officials. The hearth on the Holden Tower apparently started in a trash chute about 9:30 p.m. Thursday, inflicting flames to shoot out and unfold heavy smoke to all flooring of the high-rise. Firefighters quickly responded and took a water line to the fourth-floor chute and flooded it. They additionally stretched the road to the 15th flooring and flooded the trash chute from there as an additional security measure, authorities stated. The firefighters had the blaze below management in about an hour. All residents had been capable