{"id":257162,"date":"2026-08-01T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257162\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:15:09","slug":"trash-fire-leads-to-heavy-smoke-at-former-hospital-in-upper-darby-delaware-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257162\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash fire leads to heavy smoke at former hospital in Upper Darby, Delaware County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters responded to the site of the <a data-ylk=\"slk:shuttered Delaware County Memorial Hospital;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" 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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A trash fire led to heavy smoke behind the building on Lansdowne Avenue just before midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews did not report any injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The hospital shut down in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Upper Darby School District <a data-ylk=\"slk:purchased the site last year.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" 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":"Firefighters responded to the site of the shuttered Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Upper Darby overnight on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[212,147,149,148,10053,150],"class_list":["post-257162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-delaware-county","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-school-district","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257162","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=257162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}