PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Fire Department's Engine 6 is back open now, after a 16 year absence. The fire house ...

Engine 6, a legacy fire company in Port Richmond, reopened Thursday after 16 years of being inactive. Based at 2601 Belgrade ...

City leaders say Philadelphia neighborhoods are safer now that a Port Richmond firehouse has its pumper truck back.

Thanks to a $22.4 million FEMA grant, Engine 6 in Port Richmond, which was one of seven fire companies that closed during the 2009 recession, was returned to service on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025.

The last of seven fire stations closed in 2009, to balance the city budget during the Great Recession, has been brought back ...

Experts say saltwater isn’t a fire department’s first choice, but is sometimes necessary to battle out-of-control flames.

In a time-honored tradition, the Porter Fire Department welcomed its new Engine 122, a 2024 Pierce Enforcer, by pushing it ...