{"id":239537,"date":"2026-07-09T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239537\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:12:11","slug":"two-alarm-fire-damages-lower-macungie-home-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239537\/","title":{"rendered":"Two alarm fire damages Lower Macungie home \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published July 09. 2026 01:49PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Lehigh County 911 dispatched crews from Lower Macungie and Upper Macungie fire companies and Macungie Ambulance Corps to a reported house fire in the 1200 block of Stein Way at approximately 12:30 a.m. July 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">911 reported a house on fire with flames from the roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Lower Macungie Fire Department Chief Ryan Trexler was on scene minutes after the dispatch and confirmed a working fire and requested a second alarm for additional resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Fire was already seen through the roof when units arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Press Photos by Tim SinglesUpper Macungie Township aerial ladder is set up in front of the residence, while personnel advance hand lines to the front of the home.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters advance hose lines into the front of the home and begin an interior attack.<\/p>\n<p>Macungie ambulance crews stand by after a \u201cMayday\u201d call was sounded for a firefighter trapped on the second floor of the home. Crews were able extricate the trapped firefighter from the building and the Mayday was cleared.<\/p>\n<p>Lower Macungie\u2019s Squirt 81 powers water into the front of the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published July 09. 2026 01:49PM Lehigh County 911 dispatched crews from Lower Macungie and Upper Macungie fire companies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-239537","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\/239537","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=239537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}