WHITEHALL, Pa. – An elderly woman has been hospitalized after an apartment fire in Lehigh County on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whitehall fire crews responded to a report of an apartment fire at Olympic Gardens at about 2:15 p.m..<\/p>\n
When firefighters and police arrived, smoke was coming from the building, and there were reports of a person trapped in an apartment, according to county dispatchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whitehall’s Deputy Fire Chief confirmed to 69 News that police assisted an elderly female as she was trying to crawl out of her apartment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That woman was transported to a local hospital by EMS, according to officials. As of Friday, she remains hospitalized with serious injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The apartment building was evacuated and the tenants were displaced temporarily on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whitehall Fire Chief Mark Bilder says that everyone displaced will return to their apartments by Friday, excluding the apartment where the fire started.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITEHALL, Pa. – An elderly woman has been hospitalized after an apartment fire in Lehigh County on Thursday.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-150366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150366","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=150366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}