{"id":218916,"date":"2026-06-14T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218916\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:31:06","slug":"fire-damages-unoccupied-home-in-scott-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218916\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire damages unoccupied home in Scott Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TWP., LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Firefighters from multiple departments responded early Sunday morning to a well-involved house fire in Scott Township.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were dispatched just after 3 a.m. for a reported structure fire with flames visible in the area of the 800 block of Justus Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p><p>Scott Twp fire Courtesy Chris Dolan<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to dispatch reports, the location was quickly updated to an unoccupied home on Sylvan Acres Lane in the Justus section of Scott Township.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters arrived to find the structure heavily involved in fire and worked for several hours to bring the blaze under control.<\/p>\n<p>Crews remained on scene until approximately 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Departments responding to the incident included Justus Volunteer Fire Company, Scott Township Hose Company, Chinchilla Hose Company, Dickson City Fire Department, Eynon\/Sturges Hose Company No. 3, Blakely Hose Company No. 2, Fleetville Volunteer Fire Company, Greenfield Township Volunteer Fire Company, and William Walker Hose Company.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCOTT TWP., LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Firefighters from multiple departments responded early Sunday morning to a well-involved house&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-218916","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\/218916","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=218916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}