{"id":147168,"date":"2026-03-24T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147168\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:44:10","slug":"video-shows-dramatic-rescue-from-burning-home-in-allentown-pennsylvania-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147168\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows dramatic rescue from burning home in Allentown, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Body camera video shows an Allentown, Pennsylvania, firefighter rescuing a man from a fire late last week.<\/p>\n<p>Allentown&#8217;s Engine 6 and Truck 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2093595584756625\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared the video on social media<\/a> showing the fire response on the 900 block of North Emery Street on Friday, March 20.<\/p>\n<p>The video starts with a firefighter running toward the smoking home before climbing up a ladder that was leaning against the front facade. He speaks with a man who was leaning out the front window and then helps him down the ladder.<\/p>\n<p>                Allentown Fire Department Engine 6 and Truck 2<\/p>\n<p>The home can be seen filled with smoke. A fire was later found in the basement and quickly extinguished.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A total of three people were rescued from the fire: two people from the front window and one from the back of the home. Three more people got out of the home prior to firefighters&#8217; arrival.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word on what caused the fire or the conditions of the victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Six people in the home have been displaced and were assisted by the American Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/joe-brandt\/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab4i\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-ftag-appended=\"\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe  Brandt<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Joe Brandt has been a digital content producer for CBS News Philadelphia since 2022. He is a Temple University graduate and was born and raised in Pitman, NJ.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Read More\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Body camera video shows an Allentown, Pennsylvania, firefighter rescuing a man from a fire late last week. Allentown&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,422,433,157,28],"class_list":["post-147168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-fire","tag-lehigh-county","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147168","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=147168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}