One firefighter has died after being trapped in a building that caught fire in Philadelphia and then collapsed early Saturday, fire officials said.
The fallen firefighter was not immediately identified, but Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy said he was a 27-year department veteran."It's going to be a rough few weeks coming up," Murphy said at a media briefing around 8 a.m.
Four other firefighters and an inspector with the city's Department of Licenses and Inspections were also trapped at the time of the collapse. One firefighter jumped from the second story of the rubble, Murphy said. "You can't predict this," Murphy told reporters at a news conference."This was just a catastrophic accident that really hurt our department."
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