{"id":249429,"date":"2026-07-22T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249429\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:22:11","slug":"trash-fire-leads-to-heavy-smoke-at-former-hospital-in-upper-darby-delaware-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249429\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash fire leads to heavy smoke at former hospital in Upper Darby, Delaware County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WPVI;\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WPVI\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"268\" height=\"100\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aol_wpvi_878.png\"\/><\/a>Wed, July 22, 2026 at 11:11 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/65925d77-e000-4846-84fc-492a170d46cb.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to the site of the <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/delaware-county-memorial-hospital-emergency-department-closing-crozer-health-prospect-medical-holdings\/12426002\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">shuttered Delaware County Memorial Hospital<\/a> in Upper Darby overnight on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A trash fire led to heavy smoke behind the building on Lansdowne Avenue just before midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Crews did not report any injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital shut down in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Upper Darby School District <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/upper-darby-school-district-buy-now-closed-delaware-county-memorial-hospital-prospect-medical-holdings\/17439943\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">purchased the site last year.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, July 22, 2026 at 11:11 AM UTC Firefighters responded to the site of the shuttered Delaware County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-249429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249429","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=249429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}