{"id":120188,"date":"2026-02-22T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120188\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:09:09","slug":"firefighter-seriously-injured-in-easton-fire-is-identified-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120188\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter seriously injured in Easton fire is identified | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8211; A firefighter who became trapped in the three-alarm hotel fire in Easton Friday, sustained major injuries when he fell from the building.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson Borough Fire Department firefighter Bobby Lewullis was running low on air inside the third floor of the Hampton\u00a0Hotel when he called for help.\u00a0He was able to self-rescue using a ladder, but fell approximately 20 feet and remains hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>In total, six people were taken to the hospital, including Lewullis. One EMS provider was treated for smoke inhalation, and four civilians had unspecified injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Yard Foundation, a charity for firefighters, posted a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theyardfoundation.org\/mayday\/lewullis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">message about Lewullis<\/a>, whose condition is not known at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED COVERAGE<\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">The fire is now under control, but the damage will take months to repair.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. &#8211; A firefighter who became trapped in the three-alarm hotel fire in Easton Friday, sustained major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,434],"class_list":["post-120188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120188","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=120188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}