{"id":246997,"date":"2026-07-19T03:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246997\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T03:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:25:10","slug":"massive-fire-becomes-norways-largest-in-modern-times-after-destroying-more-than-100-homes-ap-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246997\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive fire becomes Norway&#8217;s largest in modern times after destroying more than 100 homes | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DRAMMEN, Norway (AP) \u2014 The largest residential fire in modern Norwegian history destroyed more than 100 homes and forced hundreds of people to evacuate, authorities said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire in southern <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/norway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norway<\/a> started in a townhouse in the city of Drammen around 3:30 p.m. Friday, police said. It then spread through the area and into nearby forests. Firefighters on Saturday morning continued their efforts to bring the blaze under control.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection said Saturday that it was the largest fire of its kind in modern times.<\/p>\n<p>NRK, Norway&#8217;s public broadcaster, said hundreds of people went to an evacuation center.<\/p>\n<p>No residents have been reported missing, police said. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Drammen is roughly 34 kilometers (21 miles) southwest of Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DRAMMEN, Norway (AP) \u2014 The largest residential fire in modern Norwegian history destroyed more than 100 homes and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,49,35,38,51941,105660,301],"class_list":["post-246997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-evacuations","tag-fires","tag-general-news","tag-media-and-entertainment-industry","tag-norway-fire-drammen","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246997","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=246997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}