{"id":12128,"date":"2025-10-23T05:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12128\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:51:07","slug":"73-year-old-woman-killed-in-mercer-county-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12128\/","title":{"rendered":"73-year-old woman killed in Mercer County house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 73-year-old woman was killed Wednesday when a house in Mercer County caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>Mercer County Coroner John Libonati said that Eleanor Samuels, 73, died after her home along Beechwood Avenue in Farrell caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters working to put out the flames at the home found Samuels, who was pronounced dead just before 10 a.m. Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/download.png#.png\" alt=\"download.png \" height=\"344\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A 73-year-old woman was killed in a house fire on Wednesday along Beechwood Avenue in Farrell.<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA<\/p>\n<p>Libonati said that Samuels&#8217; cause and manner of death are under investigation with forensic evaluation and testing as part of the process, but early details indicate no foul play involved.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the cause of the fire is being handled by the City of Farrell Fire Department and the Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 73-year-old woman was killed Wednesday when a house in Mercer County caught fire. Mercer County Coroner John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9521,5612,9520,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-12128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-fatal-fire","9":"tag-house-fire","10":"tag-mercer-county","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128","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=12128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}