{"id":107015,"date":"2026-02-06T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107015\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:22:08","slug":"pittsburgh-police-officers-spot-house-fire-on-way-to-another-call-help-get-resident-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107015\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police officers spot house fire on way to another call, help get resident out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c61853a6dd431ae5533ee4152bab5cd4.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pittsburgh police officers were en route to another call when they spotted a house fire in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters responded to a reported structure fire in the 300 block of Knox Avenue around 2:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Public Safety officials said that Zone 3 police officers were en route to an unrelated call when they saw heavy smoke coming from the home. Officers made contact with a person living inside, who was able to get out safely.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When firefighters arrived, they found fire on the first and second floors and were able to extinguish it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The person who lives in the home was evaluated by medics on scene but declined medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire displaced that occupant and one cat. The American Red Cross was notified to assist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fire Investigation Unit continues to investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police officers were en route to another call when they spotted a house fire in Allentown. Firefighters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51478,5612,73,75,74,745,1385],"class_list":["post-107015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-fire-investigation-unit","tag-house-fire","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police","tag-police-officers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107015","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=107015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}