Five people were taken to the hospital after a house fire early Friday morning in Allentown.<\/p>\n
The fire on the 900 block of North Emery Street was reported just after 3:30 a.m. Responding firefighters were alerted to reports of people being trapped inside the house, according to Capt. Jonathan Hammel, a fire department spokesperson.<\/p>\n
Firefighters arrived to find smoke coming from the house, along with two people hanging out of windows on the second floor. Crews from the department\u2019s Engine 6 and Truck 2 set up ladders and quickly rescued the two, Hammel said.<\/p>\n
A third person was rescued from the rear of the home. Another three people were believed to be inside the residence at the time of the fire, according to Hammel.<\/p>\n
All of the residents were evaluated by city paramedics, with five people transported to hospitals. Hammel said Friday morning there was no information available on their conditions.<\/p>\n
The fire originated in the basement of the home and was quickly brought under control, Hammel said. The cause is under investigation by the fire marshal.<\/p>\n
Six residents of the house, including a child, were displaced by the fire, according to Hammel. They are being assisted by the Pennsylvania Rivers Chapter of the American Red Cross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people were taken to the hospital after a house fire early Friday morning in Allentown. The fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,2376,202,433,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-143760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143760","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=143760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}