BREAKING UPDATE: The city has identified the firefighter killed in the North Philadelphia building collapse as 51-year-old Lieutenant Sean Williamson. He was a 27-year veteran of the department. The city also identified the five others who were injured.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia firefighter died after a pizza restaurant caught on fire and collapsed early Saturday morning, trapping him and five others.Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy said he was a 27-year department veteran.Production Crew For Stephen Colbert's"Late Show" Detained In Congressional Building Near US CapitolFirefighters Robert Brennan Jr. and Dennis Bailey are in critical but stable condition. Both are at Temple University Hospital.
Video obtained by CBS3 showed first responders saluting Williamson as his body was transported from the medical examiner’s office. “It didn’t look like anything very serious, but I saw all these trucks and they started to shear away the grates at the windows to get in,” Mumbauer said.“Then my niece comes down about an hour later. The whole building collapsed and I said what!?” Mumbauer said.“We heard like a bomb, real, real hard. We thought it was raining or it was thunderstorming but we didn’t pay no mind,” Lopez said.