BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Firefighters were called Sunday to a smoky blaze that will leave a city pub closed indefinitely, according to the fire chief.<\/p>\n
Fire broke out at Pints & Pies Pub-Bethlehem shortly after noon. The restaurant and tavern was evacuated.<\/p>\n
Fire crews remained on the scene at 21 E. Elizabeth Ave. as smoke poured out of a vent on the side of the building.<\/p>\n
Firefighters used a ladder truck to reach the roof.<\/p>\n
The first call came in at 12:20 p.m, according to the Northampton County 911 Center.<\/p>\n
The caller reported a fire in the walls, according to Bethlehem Fire Chief Matthew Griffin.<\/p>\n
He said firefighters found fire and smoke coming from the structure and were able to contain and extinguish the blaze quickly.<\/p>\n
A cause has not been established.<\/p>\n
Griffin said the business will remain closed for some time but he did not immediately have a timeframe. The city fire marshal is investigating, he said.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Avenue was closed to traffic at New Street.<\/p>\n
The pub is one of two locations in the Lehigh Valley, with the original one in Wilson Borough. The Bethlehem pub opened in November 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Firefighters were called Sunday to a smoky blaze that will leave a city pub closed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-278372","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\/278372","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=278372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}