{"id":152418,"date":"2026-03-30T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152418\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:58:08","slug":"man-dies-from-injuries-sustained-in-freeland-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152418\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies from injuries sustained in Freeland house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FREELAND, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Luzerne County man has died from injuries sustained in a house fire earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio identified the victim as 55-year-old Richard L. Leepin of Freeland. Leepin was pronounced dead at 8:20 p.m. on March 27 at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Cedar Crest.<\/p>\n<p>According to the coroner, an autopsy determined the cause of death to be complications from thermal injuries and smoke inhalation. The manner of death has been ruled accidental.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the fire occurred around 3 p.m. on March 14 in the 900 block of Pine Street in Freeland Borough.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation by the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office, the Freeland Fire Department, and the Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FREELAND, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Luzerne County man has died from injuries sustained in a house fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-152418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152418","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=152418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}