{"id":124372,"date":"2026-02-26T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124372\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:22:47","slug":"one-person-dead-after-early-morning-erie-county-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124372\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dead after early morning Erie County house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One person has been confirmed dead after a residential fire broke out in Wattsburg early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Calls for the blaze came in around 3 am. Emergency crews responded to the 8500 block of Haskell Hill Road in Amity Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Large amounts of smoke could be seen coming from the residence after firefighters extinguished the flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to state police, the house has been deemed a total loss.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We will provide more information on this fire later as officials investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been confirmed dead after a residential fire broke out in Wattsburg early Thursday morning. Calls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7755,136,138,137,28212,3578],"class_list":["post-124372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-amity-township","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-residential-fire","tag-thursday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124372","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=124372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}