{"id":198618,"date":"2026-05-21T06:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198618\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:24:31","slug":"coroner-confirms-fatality-in-west-wyoming-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198618\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner confirms fatality in West Wyoming house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST WYOMING, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Crews from several different fire departments responded Wednesday afternoon to a fire on Cooper Hill Road in West Wyoming. <\/p>\n<p>Luzerne County Coroner Dion Fernandes confirmed one person died in the fire. Kingston Forty Fort Fire Department, which also responded to the scene, said it was a fully-involved fire with entrapment and an explosion. <\/p>\n<p>Crews were on scene for nearly three hours battling the blaze. No word yet on the cause or the identity of the victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST WYOMING, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Crews from several different fire departments responded Wednesday afternoon to a fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-198618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198618","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=198618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}