ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Allentown firefighters Sunday rescued an unconscious person from a house fire that displaced 16 others and from which another person escaped on to a roof, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Allentown Fire Department was dispatched about 10:35 a.m. to the 200 block of North 17th Street for reports of house fire, with the possibility of entrapment, a fire department release said.<\/p>\n
The first arriving units found fire coming from a window on the side of the house and declared a working fire, the release said.<\/p>\n
One resident had gotten out of the house to a rear roof and was rescued by firefighters, it said.<\/p>\n
With additional reports of more people being entrapped, additional paramedic units were called as a second alarm for the fire was declared.<\/p>\n
The person was found unconscious on the second floor and rescued by firefighters, according to the release. That person and another who escaped to a roof were taken by Allentown Paramedics to area hospitals \u2014 the one who was found unconscious is in serious condition.<\/p>\n
Allentown Fire Department release<\/p>\n
That person was found unconscious on the second floor and rescued by firefighters, according to the release. <\/p>\n
Both people rescued were taken by Allentown Paramedics to area hospitals \u2014 the one who was found unconscious is in serious condition.<\/p>\n
Authorities said no additional information would be released. <\/p>\n
The release said multiple searches of the structure were completed with no one else found.<\/p>\n
The fire quickly was brought under control, and an investigation is being done by the Fire Marshal division.<\/p>\n
The American Red Cross responded to assist the displaced residents of the building, which officials said is uninhabitable.<\/p>\n
Sixteen people that have been displaced and are either being
assisted or have places to reside, officials said. <\/p>\n
All the other residents self-evacuated and were not injured. There were no injuries to firefighters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Allentown firefighters Sunday rescued an unconscious person from a house fire that displaced 16 others…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,57031,57032,644,121,120],"class_list":["post-120940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-and-fire-rescue","tag-allentown-and-house-fire","tag-allentown-fire-department","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120940","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=120940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}