{"id":236998,"date":"2026-07-06T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236998\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:29:10","slug":"work-van-destroyed-in-fire-outside-erie-apartment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236998\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Van Destroyed in Fire Outside Erie Apartment | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Work Van Destroyed in Fire Outside Erie Apartment\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>A vehicle fire destroyed a work van and damaged part of an apartment property&#8217;s front lawn Monday afternoon on Erie\u2019s east side.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to 1930 E. 19th Street shortly before 4 p.m.\u00a0for reports of a vehicle fire.<\/p>\n<p>According to John Herrmann Deputy Chief of the Erie Fire Department, a cleaning crew was inside an apartment building performing air duct cleaning when their van caught fire outside.<\/p>\n<p>An early investigation at the scene led police to believe a vacuum cleaner was running inside the van while a gas leak was present. Deputy Chief Herrmann believes that a vacuum may have created a spark, which ignited the gas and causing the vehicle to burst into flames. An investigation into the exact cause is underway.<\/p>\n<p>The fire quickly engulfed the van, leaving it a total loss.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the destroyed vehicle, the apartment\u2019s front lawn sustained damage\u00a0from the fire.<\/p>\n<p>This incident is still under investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle fire destroyed a work van and damaged part of an apartment property&#8217;s front lawn Monday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8276,136,138,137,7778,26329,102072],"class_list":["post-236998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-apartment","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fire-department","tag-vehicle-fire","tag-work-van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236998","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=236998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}