ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Three people were rescued, including two who were hanging out of second-floor windows, after a fire broke out at an Allentown home early Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Five people were taken to the hospital, according to a news release from the Allentown Fire Department. Six people are displaced, including a child, fire officials said. The Red Cross is helping them.<\/p>\n
Fire crews were sent to the\u00a0900 block of\u00a0North Emery Street for a reported house fire shortly after 3:30 a.m., the city fire department said.\u00a0\u00a0Smoke poured out of the home.<\/p>\n
Firefighters saw two\u00a0people hanging out of the second-floor front windows, and immediately worked to rescue them, according to the\u00a0news release. A third person was rescued in the back of the home.<\/p>\n
There were reports of three people that left the home before the fire department arrived, officials said.<\/p>\n
City paramedics evaluated the people who lived in the home. Five people were taken to the hospital, and their condition is unknown, the city\u00a0fire department said.<\/p>\n
Officials said the fire was found in the home’s\u00a0basement and was quickly brought under control.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n
Fire marshals are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Three people were rescued, including two who were hanging out of second-floor windows, after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,28],"class_list":["post-143742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143742","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=143742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}