{"id":231041,"date":"2026-06-29T16:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231041\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:59:45","slug":"2-minors-charged-with-arson-after-six-alarm-blaze-near-allentowns-riverfront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231041\/","title":{"rendered":"2 minors charged with arson after six-alarm blaze near Allentown&#8217;s Riverfront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Two people are facing arson charges in connection with an inferno that raged Wednesday night near Allentown\u2019s Riverfront.<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office on Friday announced charges against two unnamed juveniles in connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleynews.com\/allentown\/massive-fire-erupts-along-allentown-riverfront?ref=lehighvalleypublicmedia.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the six-alarm fire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are charged with arson, recklessly endangering another person, conspiracy and causing a catastrophe. Authorities did not provide their ages Friday afternoon.<br \/>UntitledFlames ripped through the former American Atelier furniture factory and heavily damaged seven rowhomes across Front Street; the fire was reported at 8:41 p.m Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Crews fought hotspots into Thursday morning before starting to knock down parts of the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Two people are facing arson charges in connection with an inferno that raged Wednesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-231041","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\/231041","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=231041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}