{"id":105842,"date":"2026-02-05T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105842\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:54:07","slug":"pennsylvania-fire-displaces-patients-at-lehigh-valley-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105842\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania fire displaces patients at Lehigh Valley Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews battled a blaze and evacuated patients from a hospital Wednesday night in Pennsylvania as fire engulfed part of the facility, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>All patients, staff and visitors were safely evacuated from Lehigh Valley Hospital in Dickson City, according to a hospital spokesperson. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders continued to work at the scene early Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Josh Shapiro said on the social platform X that the state\u2019s police, emergency management agency and health department had responded to the fire.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38393917\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo-provided-nepa-fire-photography-120433262.jpg\" alt=\"Emergency crews battled a blaze and evacuated patients from a hospital Wednesday night in Pennsylvania as fire engulfed part of the facility on Feb. 4, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-38393917\"  \/>Emergency crews battled a blaze and evacuated patients from a hospital Wednesday night in Pennsylvania as fire engulfed part of the facility on Feb. 4, 2026. AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to every first responder running toward danger to help their fellow Pennsylvanians,\u201d he said. \u201cLori and I are praying for the staff, patients, their families, and the entire community tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In video and photos posted online, flames can be seen shooting out from the top of what appears to be the hospital\u2019s Orthopedic Institute.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what had caused the fire in Dickson City, which is about 6 miles north of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeep gratitude goes to the first responders and hospital teams whose swift, professional actions ensured the safety and well-being of everyone involved,\u201d US Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr., whose district includes the city, posted on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews battled a blaze and evacuated patients from a hospital Wednesday night in Pennsylvania as fire engulfed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35,5725,28,30,29,302],"class_list":["post-105842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-fires","tag-hospitals","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}