{"id":176860,"date":"2026-04-26T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176860\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:01:11","slug":"this-week-69-news-investigates-why-two-families-still-cant-return-home-3-months-after-a-sinkhole-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176860\/","title":{"rendered":"This week: 69 News investigates why two families still can\u2019t return home 3 months after a sinkhole | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sinkholes have become an all-too-common sight in the Lehigh Valley area.<\/p>\n<p>The harsh winter we just went through made them an even more common occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>You may remember the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/allentown-area\/sinkhole-opens-in-lehigh-county-forcing-families-to-evacuate\/article_22eb040b-c321-4fc4-ad82-d5b513573b47.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sinkhole on 15th Street in Allentown<\/a>. Now, three months later, two homeowners and their children are still not allowed to return home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, I feel like there is not much I can do or provide to her,\u201d SAYS WHO?? &#8220;No one cares if I have a place to go or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This week in a two-part special report, 69 News Reporter Julianna Furfari will introduce you to the two families who are still unable to return home.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll dig into what happens when our infrastructure fails, Monday and Tuesday at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinkholes have become an all-too-common sight in the Lehigh Valley area. The harsh winter we just went through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,36507,6685,79079,157,294,26299,15765],"class_list":{"0":"post-176860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-displacement","13":"tag-homeowners","14":"tag-infrastructure-failure","15":"tag-lehigh-valley","16":"tag-public-safety","17":"tag-sinkhole","18":"tag-winter-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176860","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=176860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}