{"id":111242,"date":"2026-02-11T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/111242\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:09:08","slug":"crews-battle-house-fire-in-lower-merion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/111242\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle house fire in Lower Merion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER MERION \u2014 No injuries were reported after all seven Lower Merion fire companies, Narberth and several Delaware County companies, responded to a house fire on Delmont Drive in the Penn Wynne section of Lower Merion on Tuesday shortly after 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>First arriving units in the 900 block of found fire coming from a second-floor bedroom window. The fire then spread into the attic, changing the fire operations from an interior to an exterior operation, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Crews worked for an hour before bringing the blaze under control. (COURTESY OF MERION FIRE COMPANY OF ARDMORE)\" width=\"1512\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5127-rotated-e1770828578646.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"1744943\" \/>Crews worked for an hour before bringing the blaze under control. (COURTESY OF MERION FIRE COMPANY OF ARDMORE)<\/p>\n<p>Crews quickly knocked down the exterior fire, reentered the building, and extinguished the remaining fire inside.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was placed under control at 12:14 a.m. All fire units cleared the scene by 2 a.m. The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION \u2014 No injuries were reported after all seven Lower Merion fire companies, Narberth and several Delaware&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[182,183,185,184,186,200,139,28,210],"class_list":["post-111242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-local-news","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-montgomery-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-dtd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111242","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=111242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}