{"id":245230,"date":"2026-07-16T21:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245230\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:26:10","slug":"easton-declares-fire-emergency-for-sitgreaves-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245230\/","title":{"rendered":"Easton declares fire emergency for Sitgreaves Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easton has declared a \u201cfire emergency\u201d for a downtown street Thursday afternoon due to an underground fire.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cityofeastonpa\/posts\/pfbid02Z9N2GgVS59SkfegUanLPLv1PBJYGwufCNt9A1QbeFndVNpm5iSeUCiRT9sLBoNLpl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post around 3:20 p.m. on the city\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>, officials announced the declaration for the area of Sitgreaves Street between Ferry Street and Larry Holmes Drive.<\/p>\n<p>There was a fire in an electrical vault under the street, according to the post, which warned people to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Easton Fire Department was responding, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Easton has declared a \u201cfire emergency\u201d for a downtown street Thursday afternoon due to an underground fire. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,2181,6290,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":["post-245230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-easton","tag-easton-area","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245230","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=245230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}