{"id":127775,"date":"2026-03-02T22:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127775\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:49:06","slug":"five-displaced-firefighter-injured-in-scranton-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127775\/","title":{"rendered":"Five displaced, firefighter injured in Scranton blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five people were displaced and one firefighter was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after a blaze in the city Monday afternoon, Scranton Assistant Fire Chief Brian Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>Crews responded to 527 Crown Ave. around 1:30 p.m. and encountered heavy fire in the rear of the structure, Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>The rear of the single-family dwelling sustained a lot of fire damage, but crews had the blaze under control in about 20 minutes, Scott added.<\/p>\n<p>The American Red Cross is assisting the residents as the house has been condemned, Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the blaze is under investigation by the Scranton Fire Department, Scott said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people were displaced and one firefighter was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after a blaze in the city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-127775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127775","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=127775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}