{"id":167385,"date":"2026-04-16T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167385\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:48:07","slug":"2-residents-2-firefighters-injured-in-massive-lawrenceville-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167385\/","title":{"rendered":"2 residents, 2 firefighters injured in massive Lawrenceville fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA three-alarm fire sent four people to the hospital early Thursday morning in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Lawrenceville neighborhood.It broke out at a home on Ligonier Street just after 12:30 a.m.Pittsburgh Public Safety officials tell Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4, a man inside the home where the fire started, was forced to jump from the top floor of the house, to a neighbor&#8217;s home. He suffered serious burns. His mother was also home when the fire started. She is being treated for smoke inhalation.The fire spread to a neighboring home, which  was seriously damaged. As crews worked to put out the flames, one firefighter sustained a hip injury and was taken to the hospital. A second firefighter was taken to the hospital with minor facial burns.Officials say, at one point, there was a &#8216;mayday&#8217; call, and the floor in the house where the fire started, collapsed. Firefighters fell from the second to the first floor, but were not hurt.The Red Cross and Salvation Army are helping the victims.Fire crews are still working to put out hotspots.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A three-alarm fire sent four people to the hospital early Thursday morning in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Lawrenceville neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>It broke out at a home on Ligonier Street just after 12:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Public Safety officials tell Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4, a man inside the home where the fire started, was forced to jump from the top floor of the house, to a neighbor&#8217;s home. He suffered serious burns. <\/p>\n<p>His mother was also home when the fire started. She is being treated for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p>The fire spread to a neighboring home, which  was seriously damaged. <\/p>\n<p>As crews worked to put out the flames, one firefighter sustained a hip injury and was taken to the hospital. A second firefighter was taken to the hospital with minor facial burns.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say, at one point, there was a &#8216;mayday&#8217; call, and the floor in the house where the fire started, collapsed. Firefighters fell from the second to the first floor, but were not hurt.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross and Salvation Army are helping the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews are still working to put out hotspots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A three-alarm fire sent four people to the hospital early Thursday morning in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Lawrenceville neighborhood.It broke out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,75410,21137,6849,422,8631,57340,18169,75411,86,6111,1084,8588,75409,1399,75415,75412,75414,73,18537,75,74,6975,75413,43922,36506,3578],"class_list":{"0":"post-167385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-action-news","9":"tag-awrenceville-fire","10":"tag-call","11":"tag-crew","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-firefighter","14":"tag-firefighter-injury","15":"tag-floor","16":"tag-floor-collapse","17":"tag-home","18":"tag-hospital","19":"tag-house","20":"tag-lawrenceville","21":"tag-ligonier-street","22":"tag-man","23":"tag-massive-lawrenceville-fire","24":"tag-mayday-call","25":"tag-minor-facial-burn","26":"tag-pittsburgh","27":"tag-pittsburgh-fire","28":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","29":"tag-pittsburgh-news","30":"tag-pittsburgh-public-safety","31":"tag-serious-burns","32":"tag-smoke-inhalation","33":"tag-three-alarm-fire","34":"tag-thursday-morning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167385","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=167385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}