LOWER MERION, PA \u2014 A powerful underground fire pushed high levels of carbon monoxide into a Wynnewood shopping center overnight, officials said.<\/p>\n
The fire, reported at 10:51 p.m. Tuesday, brought heavy flames and smoke to the back alley of Wynnewood Square \u2014 a strip mall on East Lancaster Avenue, anchored by Target.<\/p>\n
Firefighters battled the blaze and made sure all stores were evacuated while checking for smoke.<\/p>\n
The smoke and fire were controlled in four hours, according to the Merion Fire Company of Ardmore.<\/p>\n
High levels of carbon monoxide were found in several stores, officials said. Specific businesses weren’t specified, but photos from the scene showed firefighters outside of Petco and Five Below.<\/p>\n
Firefighters turned over the scene to PECO and the Lower Merion Fire Department’s Fire Marshal’s Office.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION, PA \u2014 A powerful underground fire pushed high levels of carbon monoxide into a Wynnewood shopping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-179293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179293","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=179293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}