{"id":228189,"date":"2026-06-25T21:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228189\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T21:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:37:40","slug":"major-fire-leads-to-evacuation-in-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228189\/","title":{"rendered":"Major fire leads to evacuation in Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WHTM) \u2014 Numerous homes are being evacuated as a massive blaze burns in Pennsylvania\u2019s Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters are battling a \u201cmulti-home fire\u201d in the 300 block of Front Street in Allentown, according to Allentown Police.<\/p>\n<p>Homes across from the former American Atelier furniture factory are being evacuated.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/allentown-fire.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3061411\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Residents are being directed to exit through the rear of the homes, stay clear of the affected area and to follow all instructions from first responders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abc27.com\/streaming\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/abc27.com\/streaming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download the abc27 News+ app on your Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Apple TV devices<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/abc27.com\/streaming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">, and newer Samsung Smart TVs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos shared on social media showed the former furniture factory enveloped in flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">This is a developing story. Stay with abc27 News as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WHTM) \u2014 Numerous homes are being evacuated as a massive blaze burns in Pennsylvania\u2019s Lehigh Valley.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-228189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228189","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=228189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}