{"id":116484,"date":"2026-02-17T22:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116484\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:32:09","slug":"basement-fire-in-hanover-township-briefly-displaces-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116484\/","title":{"rendered":"Basement fire in Hanover Township briefly displaces family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YOU5Q4AVOFH7HKOBMZ44IFZJFE\">A family is safe after crews battled a basement fire early Tuesday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Hanover%20Township\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Hanover%20Township\/\">Hanover Township<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Northampton%20County\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Northampton%20County\">Northampton County.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SIYKQHBQ6JGFVL3LNNJOAYRJYE\">Township Volunteer Fire Co. Chief Scott VanWhy told lehighvalleylive.com flames ignited just after midnight at the two-story home in the 4400 block of Lenox Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"B22Q2IHBOVFAFONLEN4FR4WLCE\">All occupants safely evacuated on their own, he said. There were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PRKD5Z4UKFDKTPLGL3QFJY7YOY\">A second alarm initially was requested for more manpower but was later recalled, though a few units remained. It took firefighters about 15 minutes to get the flames under control, VanWhy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XMF7BO7SGNBBPFUXLWGM7F66YA\">The home sustained minor fire damage and moderate smoke damage. Township fire officials are investigating the cause, VanWhy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"F5OUEBK7EZEBTBK6HH3PLNB7PY\">The family was allowed to return to the home later Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family is safe after crews battled a basement fire early Tuesday in Hanover Township, Northampton County. Township&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-116484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116484","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=116484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}