{"id":245330,"date":"2026-07-16T23:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245330\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:13:18","slug":"allentown-man-dies-in-south-whitehall-fire-lehigh-county-coroner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245330\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man dies in South Whitehall fire, Lehigh County coroner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 37-year-old Allentown man died in a fire that broke out early Monday in a vacant South Whitehall Township home, the Lehigh County coroner said.<\/p>\n<p>Coroner Daniel A. Buglio identified the victim as Christopher R. Forsythe. Buglio said Forsythe was removed from the home by firefighters, but pronounced dead at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy revealed the cause of death as smoke inhalation and thermal injuries. The manner of death is pending investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out after 4 a.m. in the 2800 block of Helen Street, according to a news release from Buglio.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Lehigh County coroner\u2019s office, the incident is under investigation by South Whitehall Township police and the state police fire marshal.<\/p>\n<p>Responding agencies included the Woodlawn Fire Department, Greenawalds Fire Department, Cetronia Fire Department, Tri-Clover Fire Company, Western Salisbury Fire Company, Cetronia Ambulance Corps, Upper Macungie Township Fire Company, Coplay Fire Department, Catasauqua Fire Department and Neffs Fire Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 37-year-old Allentown man died in a fire that broke out early Monday in a vacant South Whitehall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-245330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245330","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=245330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}