{"id":255556,"date":"2026-07-30T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255556\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:22:12","slug":"teen-admits-to-arson-in-allentown-multi-alarm-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255556\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen admits to arson in Allentown multi-alarm \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published July 30. 2026 11:02AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A 15-year-old juvenile entered an admission to charges related to a large fire leading to damage of several properties and vehicles in Allentown June 24, according to a press release dated July 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The teen admitted to charges of arson and causing a catastrophe, according to the press release from the office of the Lehigh County District Attorney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A second teen also is connected to the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The teen charged \u201cwill be held in a juvenile facility that offers treatment for fire setters,\u201d according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Restitution is not yet determined, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The six-alarm fire at a former furniture factory in the 300 block of North Front Street, Allentown, also damaged at least eight nearby homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A firefighter also reportedly was hurt in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The fire incident reportedly knocked out power to more than 2,000 customers and prompted road closures in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published July 30. 2026 11:02AM A 15-year-old juvenile entered an admission to charges related to a large fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-255556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255556","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=255556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}