{"id":252416,"date":"2026-07-26T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252416\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:55:09","slug":"morning-fire-in-fell-twp-under-investigation-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252416\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning fire in Fell Twp. under investigation (UPDATE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspectors are investigating a fire that destroyed a home in the Simpson area of Fell Twp. early Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters found the two-story residence on Shannon Street engulfed in flames when they arrived at 1:30 a.m., Fire Chief Peter Saltisiak said.<\/p>\n<p>They originally believed the property was vacant, but later Saltisiak said the department had received conflicting reports from neighbors and the property owner.<\/p>\n<p>Carbondale, Forest City, Whites Crossing, Browndale and Mayfield fire departments also responded.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters remained at the scene until 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A state police fire marshal is investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspectors are investigating a fire that destroyed a home in the Simpson area of Fell Twp. early Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3101,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-252416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-fell-township","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252416","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=252416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}