{"id":223662,"date":"2026-06-20T03:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223662\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:41:32","slug":"several-homes-destroyed-33-displaced-after-4-alarm-fire-in-allentown-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223662\/","title":{"rendered":"Several homes destroyed, 33 displaced after 4-alarm fire in Allentown, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, September 16, 2024<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Several homes destroyed, 33 displaced after 4-alarm fire in Allentown, Pennsylvania\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Seven houses were damaged after a multi-alarm fire in Allentown on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire broke out around midnight on the unit block of S. Jefferson Street in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When crews arrived, flames showed from multiple homes after spreading to neighboring houses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The blaze was quickly upgraded to a four-alarm fire and took over an hour to get under control, according to fire officials. Six separate departments responded to help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At least 33 people have been displaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One firefighter was injured from battling the blaze and taken to the hospital, authorities say. There is no word yet on the firefighter&#8217;s condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A North Penn Goodwill Service food truck was at the scene providing food and drinks to people and firefighters. The Red Cross was also there to assisst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">There has been no word on the cause of the fire or if there were any other injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, September 16, 2024 ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Seven houses were damaged after a multi-alarm fire in Allentown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[97191,119,4137,121,120,19097,97190,5612],"class_list":["post-223662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-97191","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-fire","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-pennsylvania","tag-fire-in-allentown","tag-house-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223662","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=223662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}