{"id":106431,"date":"2026-02-05T23:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106431\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T23:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:17:09","slug":"patients-evacuated-as-fire-tears-through-lackawanna-co-hospital-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106431\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients evacuated as fire tears through Lackawanna Co. hospital \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"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. 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 lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PAStatePolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PAStatePolice<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PEMAHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PEMAHQ<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PAHealthDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PAHealthDept<\/a> are on the scene now at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Dickson City and helping to evacuate patients and secure the area. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you to every first responder running toward danger to help their fellow Pennsylvanians. Lori and I are praying\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Josh Shapiro (@GovernorShapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernorShapiro\/status\/2019262580443771082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 5, 2026<\/a> <\/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&#8217;s 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 U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr., whose district includes the city, posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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":106432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-106431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106431","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=106431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}