{"id":148566,"date":"2026-03-26T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148566\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:10:10","slug":"firefighters-battle-second-alarm-fire-at-northampton-co-family-home-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148566\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle second\u2011alarm fire at Northampton Co. family home | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Firefighters battle second&#x2011;alarm fire at Northampton Co. family home\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c471213d8a8.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>FREEMANSBURG, Pa. &#8211; A second-alarm fire broke out at a home on Market Street in Freemansburg late Wednesday afternoon, according to 911 dispatchers.<\/p>\n<p>The call came in at 5:53 p.m. for a fire at a two\u2011and\u2011a\u2011half\u2011story single\u2011family home. The blaze quickly went to a second alarm, dispatchers say.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Firefighters battle second&#x2011;alarm fire at Northampton Co. family home\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c4712a724c2.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews say flames were visible on the second floor when they arrived. One person was taken to the hospital, police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Dispatchers reported the fire was under control by 6:45 p.m., though several fire companies remained on scene past 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Firefighters battle second&#x2011;alarm fire at Northampton Co. family home\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c47132a1c11.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>Freemansburg, Nancy Run, Bethlehem, Bethlehem Township, and Lower Saucon fire departments all responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV FREEMANSBURG, Pa. &#8211; A second-alarm fire broke out at a home on Market&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,6753,422,7778,11998,6111,5932,812,28175],"class_list":["post-148566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-emergency","tag-fire","tag-fire-department","tag-freemansburg","tag-hospital","tag-market-street","tag-rescue","tag-second-alarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148566","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=148566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}