{"id":221215,"date":"2026-06-17T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221215\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:00:22","slug":"1-dead-in-house-fire-in-newark-delaware-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221215\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead in house fire in Newark, Delaware, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person was found dead in a Delaware home where a fire broke out overnight, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews were called to a home on Minor Court in Newark around 3:30 a.m. When they arrived, they found heavy flames coming from the home and brought the blaze under control in about 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Crews found the victim inside a hallway of the home. Hoarding conditions inside the house made the firefight more difficult, according to fire officials. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/newark-delaware-fire-submitted-video.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"newark-delaware-fire-submitted-video.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Crews respond to a house fire on Minor Court in Newark, Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>                Submitted video<\/p>\n<p>Officials said a neighbor&#8217;s call to 911 alerted crews to the fire. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim found in the home has not been publicly identified. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/house-fire-newark-delaware-minor-court.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"house-fire-newark-delaware-minor-court.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Chopper 3\/CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person was found dead in a Delaware home where a fire broke out overnight, officials say. Fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[916,422,9240,18388,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-221215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware","tag-fire","tag-new-castle-county","tag-newark","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221215","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=221215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}