{"id":105872,"date":"2026-02-05T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105872\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:30:11","slug":"emergency-crews-battle-fire-and-evacuate-patients-from-pennsylvania-hospital-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105872\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency crews battle fire and evacuate patients from Pennsylvania hospital | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DICKSON CITY, Pa. \u2013 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>Gov. Josh Shapiro said on the social platform X that the state\u2019s police, emergency management agency and health department were helping to evacuate patients and secure the area at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Dickson City.<\/p>\n<p>kAm\u201c%92?&lt; J@F E@ 6G6CJ 7:CDE C6DA@?56C CF??:?8 E@H2C5 52?86C E@ 96=A E96:C 76==@H !6??DJ=G2?:2?D[\u201d 96 D2:5] \u201c{@C: 2?5 x 2C6 AC2J:?8 7@C E96 DE277[ A2E:6?ED[ E96:C 72&gt;:=:6D[ 2?5 E96 6?E:C6 4@&gt;&gt;F?:EJ E@?:89E]\u201dk^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAmx? G:56@ 2?5 A9@E@D A@DE65 @?=:?6[ 7=2&gt;6D 42? 36 D66? D9@@E:?8 @FE 7C@&gt; E96 E@A @7 H92E 2AA62CD E@ 36 E96 9@DA:E2=VD ~CE9@A65:4 x?DE:EFE6]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAms:4:=6D W`_ &lt;:=@&gt;6E6CDX ?@CE9 @7 $4C2?E@?]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm!6??DJ=G2?:2 &amp;]$] #6A] #@3 qC6D?292? yC] A@DE65 @? ) E92E 96 \ud83d\ude00 4=@D6=J &gt;@?:E@C:?8 E96 7:C6 2?5 E92E 9:D \u201cE9@F89ED 2C6 H:E9 E96 A2E:6?ED[ DE277[ 7:CDE C6DA@?56CD[ 2?5 72&gt;:=:6D 27764E65 3J E96 7:C6]\u201dk^Am<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DICKSON CITY, Pa. \u2013 Emergency crews battled a blaze and evacuated patients from a hospital Wednesday night in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36451,35,38,1057,28,30,51086,29,44],"class_list":["post-105872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-disaster-planning-and-response","tag-fires","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-hospital-fire-lehigh-valley","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105872","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=105872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}