Multiple Philadelphia fire trucks are on the scene of a four-alarm blaze at an apartment building in West Philadelphia early Saturday morning.The building is on the corner of 48th and Locust streets.

A four-alarm fire at an abandoned four-story West Philadelphia apartment building put firefighters to the test as hot spots were doused, new ones leapt from the building.

Firefighters are working to put out a massive fire that has heavily damaged an apartment building in West Philadelphia. NBC10 is on the scene at 48th and Locust early Saturday, June 7, 2025, and multiple crews can be seen working to control the flames and smoke.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to plague the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region, with multiple states under air quality alerts.

As a day progresses the air near the water’s surface can warm some and the inversion erodes. The smoke will lift and disappear into a larger space in the air over Michigan. So the strong visual of thick smoke turns into a faint haze of smoke all over the sky of Michigan.