{"id":130445,"date":"2026-03-05T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130445\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:09:00","slug":"dickson-city-hospital-blaze-probe-continues-no-cause-determined-yet-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130445\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickson City hospital blaze probe continues; no cause determined yet \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cause of a fire that tore through parts of Lehigh Valley Hospital-Dickson City on Feb. 4 is still under investigation, according to Dickson City Fire Chief Richard Chowanec.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the extent of the damage, fire officials have currently listed the cause as \u201cundetermined,\u201d but he expects a final cause to be determined some time in April.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple insurance companies are doing a joint investigation, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital reopened on its emergency department and operating rooms in its main building on Feb. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cause of a fire that tore through parts of Lehigh Valley Hospital-Dickson City on Feb. 4 is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1099,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-130445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-dickson-city","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130445","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=130445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}