DICKSON CITY, Penn. (AP) \u2014 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
All patients, staff and visitors were safely evacuated from Lehigh Valley Hospital in Dickson City, according to a hospital spokesperson. Emergency responders continued to work at the scene early Thursday.<\/p>\n
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
\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
In video and photos posted online, flames can be seen shooting out from the top of what appears to be the hospital’s Orthopedic Institute.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear what had caused the fire in Dickson City, which is about 6 miles (10 kilometers) north of Scranton.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeep gratitude goes to the first responders and hospital teams whose swift, professional actions ensured the safety and well-being of everyone involved,\u201d U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr., whose district includes the city, posted on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DICKSON CITY, Penn. (AP) \u2014 Emergency crews battled a blaze and evacuated patients from a hospital Wednesday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,25404,25405,28,30,51086,29,25396,25399,25402,51030,178],"class_list":["post-105852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-hospital-fire-lehigh-valley","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-product-30097-ap-pennsylvania-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-rob-bresnahan-jr","tag-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105852","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=105852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}