{"id":236198,"date":"2026-07-05T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236198\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:07:09","slug":"cooling-center-established-for-salisbury-township-residents-without-power-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236198\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooling center established for Salisbury Township residents without power | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; A cooling center has been established in Salisbury Township for residents that remain without power after severe weather that affected the region this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The township made an announcement on Facebook, saying residents without power can go to the Western Salisbury Volunteer Fire Company.<\/p>\n<p>The fire station is available for those who need to charge electronic devices, cool off, and access basic amenities, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The township asks that people try to carpool whenever possible and park along Green Acres Drive to help keep access clear for emergency vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The fire company is located at 950 S. Ott Street in Allentown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone wanting to donate items for impacted residents and fire department volunteers is asked to drop things off at the fire station.<\/p>\n<p>Donations of bottled water, snacks, or prepared food are greatly appreciated, according to the township.<\/p>\n<p>According to PPL, some areas may remain without power until Wednesday, the township said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; A cooling center has been established in Salisbury Township for residents that remain without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-236198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236198","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=236198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}