{"id":109184,"date":"2026-02-09T16:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109184\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:29:18","slug":"downtown-erie-frie-sunday-displaces-gannon-students-other-residents-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109184\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Erie Frie Sunday Displaces Gannon Students, Other Residents | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"West 6th St Fire.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Fire broke out in a downtown Erie home Sunday evening, displacing at least three Gannon University students and other occupants.<\/p>\n<p>The historic home \u2014 with 10 of a dozen occupied apartments inside \u2014 is at 238 West 6th Street.<\/p>\n<p>The first firefighters on the scene reported heavy smoke coming from the second floor.<\/p>\n<p>Erie Fire Marshal Adam Gatti tells us a maintenance man using a plumbing torch to thaw pipes accidentally sparked the fire in a wall.<\/p>\n<p>The flames spread up through the second floor to the attic.<\/p>\n<p>Gannon University is already helping two students move into on-campus housing in Harborview Apartments. A third student headed home to stay with family.<\/p>\n<p>Two apartments had the most damage, and the law office next door opened its doors to keep those evacuated safe and warm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire broke out in a downtown Erie home Sunday evening, displacing at least three Gannon University students and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,422,52374],"class_list":{"0":"post-109184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-historic-home"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109184","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=109184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}