{"id":227434,"date":"2026-06-25T02:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227434\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:19:25","slug":"massive-6-alarm-allentown-fire-knocks-out-power-to-thousands-residents-told-to-evacuate-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227434\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive 6-alarm Allentown fire knocks out power to thousands; residents told to evacuate | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Multiple fire crews are on the scene of a massive commercial building fire on Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

County dispatchers say the blaze has escalated to a six-alarm response. The first alarm came in around 8:40 p.m..\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The fire is burning at a building in the 300 block of North Front Street. Now, crews are in an urgent battle to keep the fire from spreading to other buildings on the block.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Firefighters are currently attacking the flames from the ground while deploying multiple aerial ladder units to battle the blaze from above.<\/p>\n

All three floors of the building are on fire, and PPL has turned off power in that area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over 3,000 PPL customers in the area are without power as a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Witnesses at the scene told 69 News that heavy flames are visible along Front Street, sending thick, black smoke into the air.<\/p>\n

Officials are advising residents in the surrounding area to shelter in place until further notice.<\/p>\n

Any resident in the 300 block of Front Street are asked to exit their properties through their backyards, according to fire captain Joshua Brubaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is no immediate word on what caused the fire or if any injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Stick with 69 News on the web and on air for updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Multiple fire crews are on the scene of a massive commercial building fire on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,232,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-227434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227434","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=227434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}