{"id":198543,"date":"2026-05-21T04:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198543\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:21:36","slug":"allentown-apartment-fire-during-storm-displaces-5-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198543\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown apartment fire during storm displaces 5, under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown firefighters battled an apartment building fire late Wednesday afternoon as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/05\/20\/allentown-weather-severe-storms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thunderstorms moved through the region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the blaze in the 600 block of North 22nd Street is being investigated by the city\u2019s fire marshal, according to Allentown Fire Department spokesperson Capt. Jonathan Hammel.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews were called to the building just after 5 p.m. and arrived to find flames coming from the roof. Crews worked quickly to contain the blaze, Hammel said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>A second and later third alarm were struck due to high temperatures and to relieve first responders, according to Hammel. The fire broke out just as several days of 90-degree weather gave way to cooler weather.<\/p>\n<p>Allentown Paramedics worked with Cetronia Ambulance and Woodlawn Fire Department\u2019s rehab unit to keep responding firefighters hydrated. No firefighters or residents were injured, Hammel said.<\/p>\n<p>Five adults who live at the residences will be displaced for \u201can unknown period of time,\u201d according to Hammel. The Red Cross was requested to assist them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allentown firefighters battled an apartment building fire late Wednesday afternoon as thunderstorms moved through the region. The cause&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2376,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-198543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198543","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=198543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}