{"id":229119,"date":"2026-06-26T20:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229119\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:47:47","slug":"2-juveniles-charges-with-arson-and-causing-a-catastrophe-in-massive-allentown-pennsylvania-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229119\/","title":{"rendered":"2 juveniles charges with arson and causing a catastrophe in massive Allentown, Pennsylvania fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two juveniles are in custody and face multiple charges, including arson and causing a catastrophe, in connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/fire-in-allentown-pa\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a massive fire that destroyed several properties Wednesday night in Allentown, Pennsylvania,<\/a> officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out at an old furniture factory in the 300 block of North Front Street, forced nearby residents to evacuate and hundreds in the area without power.<\/p>\n<p>The juveniles are being held in juvenile detention and are being charged with arson, causing a catastrophe, recklessly endangering another person, and conspiracy, the Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not released the names or ages of the juveniles, but due to the circumstances of the offense, the charges will go through the juvenile system.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two juveniles are in custody and face multiple charges, including arson and causing a catastrophe, in connection with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,422],"class_list":["post-229119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229119","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=229119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}