{"id":219416,"date":"2026-06-15T07:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219416\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T07:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:56:07","slug":"hundreds-of-customers-lose-power-after-report-of-wires-sparking-in-allentown-allentown-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219416\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of customers lose power after report of wires sparking in Allentown | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WFMZ-TV | Maggie Georges<\/p>\n

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Crews responded to an area of Airport Road after a caller from the Bethlehem Diner reported sparking wires on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Lehigh County Communications say the call came in at 1:52 p.m., and crews confirmed a power outage once they arrived on scene.<\/p>\n

According to the PPL Outage Map<\/a>, a tripped breaker or blown fuse cut power to 241 customers in the area.<\/p>\n

PPL\u2019s website listed an estimated restoration time of 10 p.m., though that may change as crews make repairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WFMZ-TV | Maggie Georges ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Crews responded to an area of Airport Road after a caller…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7790,119,121,120,95547,26030,433,9174,3996,9914,95548],"class_list":["post-219416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-airport-road","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem-diner","tag-emergency-response","tag-lehigh-county","tag-power-outage","tag-power-restoration","tag-ppl","tag-sparking-wires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219416","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=219416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}