It was a momentous occasion for the Port Richmond fire station, which had been the only station in the city without a truck able to access water. Engine 6 had been out of service for 16 years.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Fire Department's Engine 6 is back open now, after a 16 year absence. The fire house services residents in Port Richmond, Kensington, and Fishtown.

A large fire broke out this morning at a Philadelphia city bus facility. Officials say this facility houses out-of-service SEPTA buses.

The fire broke out at Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's facility in Philadelphia's Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood. Up to 40 buses caught fire.

After 16 years idle, Port Richmond's Engine 6 fire station has reopened in an effort to help support Philadelphia Riverward communities.

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Seven people are dead, including one in a car on the ground, after a twin-engine medevac jet carrying a child patient and her mother crashed in a neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia Friday ...

National News Plane with 6 aboard crashes in Philadelphia, setting homes ablaze and unleashing a fireball A medical transport jet carrying a pediatric patient and five others slammed into a ...

Emergency crews are responding to a crash in northeast Philadelphia after a jet crashed near a shopping mall.

A small plane has crashed in Northeast Philadelphia as crews respond to a fiery scene Pennsylvania’s governor said Friday.