The predawn Sunday fire consumed a 41-unit building at the Austin Manor Apartments on Rising Sun Avenue near Tyson Avenue and sent 23 people, including four firefighters, to the hospital. Some leaped from windows in...

Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer on November 24, 2009.

Flames broke out around 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning in a third floor apartment at the Austin Manor Apartments at 7024 Rising Sun Avenue and eventually grew to five alarms, officials said.

Published by NBC Philadelphia on November 24, 2009.

" 'The building is on fire' is all she kept saying," said Ortega, 32, who lives in the Austin Manor Apartments on Rising Sun Avenue near Tyson. " 'Everybody's jumping out windows!' " the neighbor added with urgency.

Published by The Philadelphia Daily News on November 23, 2009.

Despite the late hour, the Crazy Hands barbershop, on Lehigh Avenue near 24th Street, was open and serving customers at about 10:21 p.m. when Odd, of Horrocks Street near Knorr, in the city's Oxford Circle section, and an unidentified fellow barber at the store got into an argument, Wilkins said.

Published by The Philadelphia Daily News on November 23, 2009.

Odd lived in the 6300 block of Horrocks Street in Oxford Circle.

Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer on November 23, 2009.

Gannon Lowery, 23, of Horrocks Street near Longshore Avenue, in Oxford Circle, was shot once in the chest and once in the head by the unidentified homeowner, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:41 p.m.

Published by The Philadelphia Daily News on November 23, 2009.

Despite the late hour, the Crazy Hands barbershop, on Lehigh Avenue near 24th Street, was open and serving customers at about 10:21 p.m. when Odd, of Horrocks Street near Knorr, in the city's Oxford Circle section, and an unidentified fellow barber at the store got into an argument, Wilkins said.

Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer on November 23, 2009.

Gannon Lowery, 23, of Horrocks Street near Longshore Avenue, in Oxford Circle, was shot once in the chest and once in the head by the unidentified homeowner, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:41 p.m.

Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer on November 23, 2009.

" 'The building is on fire' is all she kept saying," said Ortega, 32, who lives in the Austin Manor Apartments on Rising Sun Avenue near Tyson. " 'Everybody's jumping out windows!' " the neighbor added with urgency.

Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer on November 23, 2009.

Nineteen of the 80 were taken to three hospitals after some of them leapt from windows in the three-story Austin Manor Apartments on Rising Sun Avenue near Tyson Avenue.

Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer on November 23, 2009.

The scene is the Austin Manor apartment building on the 7000 block of Rising Sun Avenue.

Published by Channel 6 Action News on November 22, 2009.

The fire was reported in a three story apartment building in the 7200 block of Rising Sun near Tyson Avenue just after 4:30am on Sunday.

Published by KYW Newsradio 1060 on November 22, 2009.

Nineteen people were taken to three hospitals after some of them leapt out of windows in the three-story Austin Manor Apartments on Rising Sun Avenue near Tyson Street.

Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer on November 22, 2009.

According to fire officials, the fire started at 4:38 a.m. in a second floor unit at the Austin Manor Apartments at 7024 Rising Sun Ave.

Published by NBC Philadelphia on November 22, 2009.

According to officials, the fire broke out at 4:32 Sunday morning. It appears to have started in a second floor unit at the Austin Manor apartments off of Rising Sun and Tyson avenues in the city's Rawnhurst section.

Published by CBS 3 on November 22, 2009.