{"id":272522,"date":"2026-08-26T11:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272522\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:42:15","slug":"2-children-killed-in-fire-in-trenton-new-jersey-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272522\/","title":{"rendered":"2 children killed in fire in Trenton, New Jersey, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two children were killed when a fire ripped through a home in Trenton, New Jersey, on Wednesday morning, fire officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Calls first came in before 4 a.m. with reports of people trapped, Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Rice said. The impacted home is on the 300 block of Hewitt Street.<\/p>\n<p>The home&#8217;s front facade is burned and firefighting efforts have concluded. Rice said the home is &#8220;completely destroyed&#8221; on the inside.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/trenton-new-jersey-house-fire.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"trenton-new-jersey-house-fire.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Chopper 3\/CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>The fire did spread to an attached building.<\/p>\n<p>One firefighter was treated on scene and released, and another was taken to a hospital for burns to one of his legs that were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>One adult in the home got out of the home safely.<\/p>\n<p>Several people are displaced and the American Red Cross is on the scene providing assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Fire marshals are working to learn more about the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two children were killed when a fire ripped through a home in Trenton, New Jersey, on Wednesday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[422,915,69,71,70,14890],"class_list":["post-272522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fire","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-trenton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272522","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=272522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}