Three residents were displaced after a fire in North Scranton on Monday morning, Scranton Assistant Fire Chief Brian Scottc said.<\/p>\n
Crews responded to 2149 Ballau Ave. around 7:27 a.m. for a report of a structure fire with entrapment, but the residents were outside when firefighters arrived, Scott said.<\/p>\n
One resident was transported to a hospital to be treated for burns, Scott added.<\/p>\n
Firefighters rescued a dog from the second floor of the residence, Scott said.<\/p>\n
The residents are being assisted by the American Red Cross.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, crews found heavy fire on the first floor at the rear of the building, Scott said.<\/p>\n
The single-family dwelling sustained heavy fire damage on the first floor and smoke and heat damage on the second floor, he added.<\/p>\n
Crews remained on the scene for about two hours, Scott said. The cause remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three residents were displaced after a fire in North Scranton on Monday morning, Scranton Assistant Fire Chief Brian…\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-146140","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\/146140","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=146140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146140\/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=146140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}