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VIDEO: Firefighting operations for a commercial structure used for multiple markets. INTRODUCING PUBLICSAFETYREPORTER.COM (BETA) — a new website by the same publisher as The Cardinal — Arlingtoncardinal.com. PUBLICSAFETYREPORTER.COM focuses on major public safety incidents and public safety incidents of special interest. Identical article on PUBLICSAFETYREPORTER.COM. Darby Fire Company No. 1 firefighters responded to a building [...]

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Extra-Alarm fire in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 — established in 1953, the Arbonite Division of P & R Industries, Inc. is one of North America’s leaders in the application of protective coatings and linings. Doylestown Fire Company responded Tuesday morning to an extra-alarm fire at Arbonite Division of P & R Industries, [...]

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Warning: graphic video. Six teenagers were in custody Friday on charges they brutally beat a neighbor on her stoop just ‘for fun’ and then posted cellphone video of the attack on Facebook, authorities said. Teen females attacked a helpless female who was sitting in front of her Chester, Pennsylvania home. The video shows offenders punched [...]

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SURVEILLANCE VIDEO: A coffee shop worker near Pittsburgh fights off a robber with a coffee pot. A suspect is now in custody. A robber pulls up to a drive-thru, and crawls from the car into the window. The coffee shop worker and wife of the owner hits the robber in the face with a heavy [...]

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Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a tornado caused roof damage in Westmoreland County and large hail was reported from a springtime storm that also dumped snow on parts of the commonwealth. A tornado touched down in Westmoreland County and caused damage to homes and buildings south of Greensburg, Pennsylvania on Wednesday.

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Seven children, including a 7-month-old girl, perished in a fast-moving fire in a home on a Pennsylvania dairy farm while their mother milked cows and their father dozed in a milk truck down the road while taking a break from work as a milk delivery truck driver. A fire at a farmhouse in Blain, Pennsylvania [...]

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Lackawanna County Coroner Tim Rowland says a tour bus struck one of two disabled cars on an interstate during an ice storm in northeastern Pennsylvania, killing a 41-year-old man. The victim was apparently standing outside one of the cars when it was hit. A victim was apparently struck after 11 p.m. Saturday by one of [...]

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VIDEO: Interview with Allentown Fire Chief Robert Scheirer, resident Tricia Aleski and fire scenes. A natural gas explosion about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday at 544 N. 13th St. in Allentown, Pennsylvania leveled two houses, spawned fires, and prompted the evacuation of about 600 people. The Police Chief said at least two people were unaccounted for after [...]

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VIDEO: “Pedro from housekeeping asked if she was ‘OK’,” after a Reading, Pennsylvania woman was walking and texting on her phone and fell into a Berkshire Mall pool. Cathy Cruz Marrero, a 49-year-old Berkshire Mall employee, who walked into an indoor pool wall and fell into a shallow depth pool on January 12, 2011, immediately [...]

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A Philadelphia abortion doctor has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a woman patient and seven babies that prosecutors say were born alive and then killed with scissors. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, his wife and eight other colleagues were arrested overnight Tuesday following a grand jury investigation Prosecutors say Dr. Kermit [...]

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A man linked by DNA to the strangling deaths of three women in a gritty, high-crime section of Philadelphia was detained Monday, police said. Philadelphia police detained suspected serial strangler Antonio Rodriguez on Monday while DNA testing is checked to see if he is linked to the sexual assault and murder of at least three [...]

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