{"id":168116,"date":"2026-04-17T01:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168116\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:32:16","slug":"transformer-blow-leaves-hundreds-without-electricity-in-northampton-county-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168116\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformer blow leaves hundreds without electricity in Northampton County | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WILSON, Pa. &#8211; Over 2,000 people were without power in Northampton County on Thursday after a car crashed into a pole transformer.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency units responded to what was originally dispatched as a vehicle fire in the area of Wood Avenue and North 17th Street just before 5:30 p.m., according to county dispatchers.<\/p>\n<p>The impact caused a transformer to blow, downing overhead wires and knocking out power to 2,360 FirstEnergy customers in that area, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials say they had the flames out in about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson Borough police, fire, and Met Ed Utility crews remain on the scene as of 6:30 p.m..<\/p>\n<p>As of 8:13, the number of customers without power is 441.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILSON, Pa. &#8211; Over 2,000 people were without power in Northampton County on Thursday after a car crashed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-168116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168116","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=168116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}