Published September 25. 2026 09:00AM<\/p>\n
South Whitehall Township emergency crews recently responded to two separate incidents along Hamilton Boulevard, including a vehicle crash into a credit union building and a pickup truck fire.<\/p>\n
The first incident occurred Sept. 15 when a driver lost control of a vehicle and crashed through an exterior wall on the west side of Lehigh Valley Educators Credit Union, 3720 Hamilton Blvd.<\/p>\n
The driver was not believed to have suffered serious injuries but was transported by Cetronia Ambulance Corps to a hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n
Firefighters from the Cetronia, Greenawalds and Woodlawn fire departments responded and extricated the driver from the vehicle.<\/p>\n
According to reports, the impact knocked an employee in an adjacent room from her chair. She was not injured.<\/p>\n
Separately, firefighters were dispatched to a vehicle fire on eastbound Hamilton Boulevard near the 3900 block.<\/p>\n
A four-door pickup truck was fully engulfed in flames when crews arrived. As firefighters battled the blaze, multiple popping sounds were heard after a firearm inside the truck became superheated and ammunition began cooking off.<\/p>\n
Greenawalds Engine 11 arrived first and began an initial attack using water from the engine\u2019s onboard tank. Firefighters soon determined a larger water supply was needed and stretched a 4-inch supply line several hundred feet to a hydrant at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Hamilton Boulevard.<\/p>\n
It took firefighters more than 20 minutes to bring the fire under control.<\/p>\n
PRESS PHOTOS BY LOU WHEELANDA Greenawalds firefighter makes the initial fire attack on a fully involved pickup truck on the east bound lane of Hamilton Boulevard Sept. 18.<\/p>\n
Greenwalds firefighters bring a fully involved pickup truck on the east bound lane of Hamilton Boulevard under control.<\/p>\n
Greenawalds firefighters Chris Peischl and Adam Garger use a hydraulic rescue tool to help remove a car that crashed into the west side of the Lehigh Valley Educators Credit Union, 3720 Hamilton Blvd., Sept. 15.<\/p>\n
An employee from Stews Tire Center, Schnecksville, prepares to remove a car that crashed into the west side of the Lehigh Valley Educators Credit Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published September 25. 2026 09:00AM South Whitehall Township emergency crews recently responded to two separate incidents along Hamilton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-293779","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\/293779","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=293779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}