{"id":227871,"date":"2026-06-25T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227871\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:19:10","slug":"videos-massive-6-alarm-blaze-burns-former-furniture-factory-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227871\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEOS: Massive 6-alarm blaze burns former furniture factory in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-24-235203-300x168.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1155803\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A former furniture factory is now a shell after a massive 6-alarm blaze burned through the commercial building in Allentown on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Several homes across the street were also damaged by the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out around 8:45 p.m. in the 300 block of North Front Street.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 6 video showed heavy flames engulfing the structure, which sustained significant damage. Portions of the roof and interior floors have collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities urged residents on the 300 block of North Front Street to evacuate through the rear of their homes, since it was too dangerous out front. Residents in surrounding areas were advised to shelter in place until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest fire I\u2019ve ever seen in my entire life. It was insane. It was hot \u2014 smoke everywhere,\u201d said Shawn Sell. \u201cI got text messages from friends 30 miles away, asking me if I was ok. And they saw the big plumes of smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The building was the former American Atelier furniture factory, which has since moved to another location.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI-TV ABC 6 Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/73a9184de6720c807e7736b4c548f6fb.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"WATCH: Massive structure fire breaks out in Pennsylvania\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former furniture factory is now a shell after a massive 6-alarm blaze burned through the commercial building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[856,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-227871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-national","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227871","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=227871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}