{"id":299392,"date":"2026-10-04T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299392\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T01:48:08","slug":"wilkinsburg-home-catches-fire-twice-overnight-investigators-rule-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299392\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkinsburg home catches fire twice overnight, investigators rule accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilkinsburg home catches fire twice overnight, investigators rule accidents<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to two fires at a Wilkinsburg home overnight, with heavy damage reported and investigators determining the cause to be accidental.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/news-team\/eed4f53d-7899-4f25-b735-209d3a8d8374\" aria-label=\"Chandi Chapman profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791078488_383_eed4f53d-7899-4f25-b735-209d3a8d8374_1583091193.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Chandi Chapman\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>WILKINSBURG, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Firefighters in Wilkinsburg were called to the same home twice overnight after two fires broke out hours apart, causing significant damage.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The first call came in after midnight at a residence on Franklin Avenue. Fire crews returned to the home around 7 a.m. after another fire left heavy damage and caused the porch to collapse.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Wilkinsburg Fire Chief said the home was occupied at the time of the fires, but everyone inside got out safely.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Arson investigators visited the scene to investigate and ruled the fires accidental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilkinsburg home catches fire twice overnight, investigators rule accidents Firefighters responded to two fires at a Wilkinsburg home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[458,1874,422,8631,29868,24376,59757,455,3192,73,75,74,421,123454,38881,123455,68502,10254],"class_list":["post-299392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-a-m","tag-accident","tag-fire","tag-firefighter","tag-first-call","tag-franklin-avenue","tag-heavy-damage","tag-investigator","tag-midnight","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-residence","tag-same-home","tag-significant-damage","tag-wilkinsburg-fire-chief","tag-wilkinsburg-home","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299392","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=299392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}