{"id":260468,"date":"2026-08-06T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260468\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:28:09","slug":"fire-heavily-damages-lower-macungie-home-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260468\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire heavily damages Lower Macungie home \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published August 06. 2026 11:47AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Fire crews from Lower Macungie fire department were dispatched to a house fire in the 5000 block of Brockton Court shortly after 5:30 p.m. July 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Responding units quickly upgraded the call to a working fire with heavy smoke and fire showing from the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Additional companies from surrounding fire departments assisted Lower Macungie including EMS and rehab units from Macungie Ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>ABOVE: Firefighters direct and move with hose lines to the front of a residence in the 5000 block of Brockton Court to knock down the bulk of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Lower Macungie Fire Capt. Ramon Deeb prepares to advance a hose line into the rear section of the dwelling.<\/p>\n<p>Press Photos by Tim SinglesCrews setup an aerial device to put out hot spots inside the home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 06. 2026 11:47AM Fire crews from Lower Macungie fire department were dispatched to a house fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-260468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260468","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=260468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}