PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A 70-year-old woman and a 7-month-old child are dead after a fire in the Mt. Airy section of the city.
Police say the fire started around 8:45 p.m. Saturday at a home near West Mount Airy Avenue and Lincoln Drive.
Assistant Fire Chief Harry Bannon told our partners at NBC 10 a neighbor jumped into action to save another child from the building.
"He urged the child to jump, the child did jump. The neighbor caught the child. They both fell, but the neighbor broke that child's fall and that child sustained no injuries," said Bannon.
The woman was found unresponsive in a bathroom inside the home and was later pronounced dead. The baby was taken to a local hospital, but died shortly after.
The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
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