{"id":303214,"date":"2026-10-09T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303214\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:06:13","slug":"firefighters-on-scene-of-reported-fire-at-william-penn-inn-in-montgomery-county-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303214\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters on scene of reported fire at William Penn Inn in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters are working to put out a reported fire Friday morning at the historic William Penn Inn in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Route 202 from Sumneytown Pike to Plymouth Road is closed to traffic due to fire department activity in the area, according to PennDOT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video from Chopper 3 shows numerous fire trucks and police vehicles that responded to the scene, with crews on the roof of the building.<\/p>\n<p>The William Penn Inn has a rich history dating back to the 1700s. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.williampenninn.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to its website,<\/a> founder William Penn and his daughter, Letitia, traveled from Philadelphia to Gwynedd to worship with local Quakers. In 1714, a public house was established at the site to provide food, drink and lodging to travelers.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are working to put out a reported fire Friday morning at the historic William Penn Inn in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[422,200,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-303214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-fire","tag-montgomery-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303214","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=303214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}