{"id":227831,"date":"2026-06-25T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227831\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:23:11","slug":"smoke-continues-to-pour-from-rubble-after-massive-allentown-warehouse-fire-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227831\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke continues to pour from rubble after massive Allentown warehouse fire \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the sun rose over Allentown on Thursday, firefighters were continuing to pour water on hot spots after getting a massive fire at a vacant warehouse<\/a> under control overnight. <\/p>\n

During the morning, NBC10’s Siobhan McGirl<\/a> was at the scene along the 300 block of Front Street in Allentown, as crews continued to work at the scene where a long vacant warehouse erupted in flames late Wednesday, causing over 100 firefighters to work late into the evening to get it under control. <\/p>\n

Also, officials said, one firefighter was hurt during the response to this incident, though in a morning update, they said the individual is expected to make a full recovery. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNBC10’s Johnny Archer was at the scene of the massive Allentown fire on Wednesday night to find that crews had gotten the blaze under control.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

In a statement, officials said the flames began in a vacant furniture factory at about 8:40 p.m. on Wednesday night and, officials said, it eventually spread to nearby homes, causing seven families to be displaced due to the incident. <\/p>\n

During the six-alarm fire, officials said, fire crews “mounted an aggressive attack” against the flames as intense heat caused the building to collapse. <\/p>\n

Fire officials said there were evacuations overnight and, power was knocked out to many homes. <\/p>\n

At the height of the incident, about 3,500 homes were without power and, according to PPL<\/a>, about 950 homes in the area of the fire remained without power as of about 7 a.m. on Thursday. <\/p>\n

However, officials said, the fire was considered under control — though the vacant structure, which was slated for redevelopment, sustained major damage — and the cause of the fire remains under active investigation by the Allentown Fire Marshal\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

NBC10 is working to learn more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the sun rose over Allentown on Thursday, firefighters were continuing to pour water on hot spots after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433],"class_list":["post-227831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227831","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=227831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}