{"id":120824,"date":"2026-02-22T23:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120824\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:05:09","slug":"allentown-firefighters-rescue-two-from-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120824\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown firefighters rescue two from house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were rescued Sunday morning from a house fire in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to a structure fire with entrapment in the 200 block of North 17th Street around 10:35 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release from the fire department, the first firefighters to arrive \u201cencountered fire from a window on the side of the structure.\u201d The fire was quickly brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters rescued one man from the roof, while a second was found unconscious on the second floor. Both were transported to an area hospital, where they were in serious condition. No firefighters were hurt.<\/p>\n<p>The building was uninhabitable after the fire, leaving about 16 people displaced. They were being assisted by the American Red Cross, or have other places where they can stay.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated with additional detail from Allentown Fire Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were rescued Sunday morning from a house fire in Allentown. Firefighters responded to a structure fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-120824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120824","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=120824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}