{"id":160327,"date":"2026-04-08T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160327\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:35:08","slug":"1-person-rescued-hospitalized-in-critical-condition-after-fire-at-chester-pennsylvania-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160327\/","title":{"rendered":"1 person rescued, hospitalized in critical condition after fire at Chester, Pennsylvania, home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was taken to a hospital in critical condition after a fire in Chester, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called out to a burning home on the 200 block of Jeffrey Street around 2:30 a.m., Chester Fire Commissioner John-Paul Shirley said at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jeffrey-street-fire-chester-pennsylvania.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"jeffrey-street-fire-chester-pennsylvania.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Crews dealt with hoarding conditions that hindered the firefight, Shirley added.<\/p>\n<p>Video from the scene showed heavy flames around the second floor and roof of the home.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/chester-pennsylvania-fire.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"chester-pennsylvania-fire.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was taken to a hospital in critical condition after a fire in Chester, Pennsylvania on Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[212,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-160327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-delaware-county","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","11":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160327","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=160327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}