LANSDALE, Pa. – Multiple residents are displaced after an apartment fire in Lansdale, Montgomery County.<\/p>\n
Officers from the Lansdale Police Department responded to a report of smoke in Building \u201cE\u201d at the Oakwood Gardens Apartments shortly before 4 a.m. Thursday, according to a news release from borough police.<\/p>\n
Arriving officers assisted residents from Buildings \u201cD\u201d and \u201cE\u201d with evacuations.<\/p>\n
Borough police say the fire was brought under control at approximately 5:08 a.m.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n
People from approximately 12 residential units were displaced as a result of the fire, according to the news release.<\/p>\n
With assistance from SEPTA, displaced residents were taken to an evacuation center established at Lansdale Catholic High School.<\/p>\n
Borough police said the center was staffed by the American Red Cross and the Montgomery County Department of Public Safety, Division of Emergency Management.<\/p>\n
The Red Cross is assisting affected residents with both short-term and long-term housing needs, as well as other services.<\/p>\n
No injuries were reported, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANSDALE, Pa. – Multiple residents are displaced after an apartment fire in Lansdale, Montgomery County. Officers from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1529,35925,26030,19144,27070,200,51232,28,30,29,5888],"class_list":{"0":"post-106233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-apartment-fire","9":"tag-displaced-residents","10":"tag-emergency-response","11":"tag-evacuation","12":"tag-lansdale","13":"tag-montgomery-county","14":"tag-oakwood-gardens-apartments","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","17":"tag-pennsylvania-news","18":"tag-red-cross"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106233","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=106233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}