[Boiler Plate]

If the house was built in the last 5 years it would have been required by MD law to have fire sprinklers. It still should have had smoke and heat detectors that should have alerted the family and with a house this size I can't imagine that it didn't have the Fire Alarm with an automatic dialer to the Fire Dept.

[applpie]

I just don’t get. How does a house that big go so fast and so hot that no one gets out. If gas,or propane was involved—wouldn’t there have been an explosion? Yet none was reporated and it was the security company that called it in.

[kvanbrunt2]

I think by the reports the place blew up. apartment building next to me at 3rd and arch became a torch in seconds. luckily no one died. arson via union. do government required safety standards actually work? i doubt it. but heh heh actually in philly the fathers required brick’s for houses. saved some major fires that occurred in other cities . now every house has a natural fire chain of tar that bleeds over every row house roof. Union workers don’t you know.

[piasa]

Maybe it is an old historic home- those can go up real quick.