{"id":249694,"date":"2026-07-22T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249694\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:52:08","slug":"teen-admits-to-setting-allentown-warehouse-on-fire-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249694\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen admits to setting Allentown warehouse on fire \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 15-year-old admitted to their role in a large 6-alarm fire that destroyed a warehouse and jumped to neighboring homes<\/a> back in June, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office. A second child is also facing charges. <\/p>\n

The raging six-alarm fire started around 8:40 p.m. on June 24, 2026, and destroyed an old furniture factory<\/a> located on 300 block of Front Street in Allentown, officials said.<\/p>\n

Investigators say\u00a0the fast moving fire jumped to several homes directly across the street<\/a>\u00a0forcing some residents to evacuate through their back doors to escape the flames. Thousands had no electricity at the height of the fire.<\/p>\n

Over 100 firefighters worked late into the night to get the fire under controls and crews stayed on scene through the whole next day to investigate.<\/p>\n

The old factory was set to be demolished making way for redevelopment after being vacant for years.<\/p>\n

According to the District Attorney’s Office, the 15-year-old suspect entered an admission to arson and causing a catastrophe charges. The teen is currently in custody at a juvenile facility that is offering treatment for “fire setters.”<\/p>\n

The other child charged in this alleged arson is going through the juvenile justice system and officials explained they could not share any more information on his case. <\/p>\n

The investigation into this fire is still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old admitted to their role in a large 6-alarm fire that destroyed a warehouse and jumped to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,28],"class_list":["post-249694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249694","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=249694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}