{"id":219708,"date":"2026-06-15T16:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219708\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:56:04","slug":"state-police-cause-of-olyphant-fire-ruled-accidental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219708\/","title":{"rendered":"State police: Cause of Olyphant fire ruled accidental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A state police fire marshal ruled the cause of a structure fire that occurred Saturday evening in the Midvalley as accidental.<\/p>\n<p>Crews responded to 323 Mooney St. in Olyphant around 6:35 p.m. after the tenant discovered the fire in the ceiling and called 911, state police at Dunmore said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined a fire in the dryer ventilation tube for the apartment resulted from a buildup of lint in the tube and caused minor damage to the roof, state police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A state police fire marshal ruled the cause of a structure fire that occurred Saturday evening in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,2120,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-219708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-olyphant","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219708","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=219708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}