8 Injured In 4-Story Blaze In U. Darby

April 2, 2007 Pennsylvania - As flames shot from windows and thick, black smoke rendered hallways unnavigable yesterday morning, about 50 residents of a Delaware County apartment complex, some in wheelchairs, frantically waited on balconies to be rescued. It was one of our bad ones, James Johnson, deputy chief of the Upper Darby Township Fire Department, said of the three-alarm fire at the Merion Terrace apartments that left dozens of families homeless. Nearly 90 firefighters rolled up on a "chaotic ...