{"id":151296,"date":"2026-03-29T02:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/151296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T02:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:43:10","slug":"at-least-one-dead-after-a-multi-home-fire-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/151296\/","title":{"rendered":"At least one dead after a multi-home fire in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A fire spread across multiple homes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lackawanna County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Lackawanna County&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Lackawanna County<\/a> on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Scranton Fire Department was called shortly after 6 p.m. for a house fire along Dartmouth Street. When they arrived, the house was fully engulfed in flames, with the fire spreading to the homes next to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The home where the fire started was destroyed, and the two homes next to it sustained serious damage as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Streets surrounding the fire were shut down as crews combated the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Lackawanna County Coroner was called to the scene of the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Red Cross was called in as crews try to take account of all the people from the homes that were affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City inspectors are investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire spread across multiple homes in Lackawanna County on Saturday evening. The Scranton Fire Department was called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[68901,5612,201,178,21701,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-151296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-fire-started","9":"tag-house-fire","10":"tag-lackawanna-county","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-fire-department","13":"tag-scranton-headlines","14":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151296","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=151296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}