{"id":307446,"date":"2026-10-15T20:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307446\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T20:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:26:19","slug":"one-person-suffers-burns-in-scranton-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307446\/","title":{"rendered":"One person suffers burns in Scranton fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON \u2014 One person was taken to a hospital after a fire broke out in a Hill Section home Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to a home at 1409 Vine St. just before 2:30 p.m. on a report of a building on fire. They arrived to find flames coming from a second-floor window on the left side of the house, Fire Chief John Judge said on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>One person was inside at the time of the fire, and firefighters rescued that person from the second floor. Paramedics from Pennsylvania Ambulance took the victim to Geisinger Community Medical Center with what Judge said were significant burn injuries. He didn\u2019t provide any further information on the victim Thursday, pending notification of their family. No firefighters were injured.<\/p>\n<p>It took firefighters 25 minutes to put out the flames, which were confined to the second-floor attic, Judge said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is under investigation, he said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Scranton Fire Department and Pennsylvania Ambulance, the Scranton Police Department and UGI also responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had the 1400 block of Vine Street closed to traffic late Thursday afternoon as fire crews put out and investigated the fire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Scranton firefighters work on the scene of a fire in the 1400 block of Vine Street in the Hill Section Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (Christine Lee\/Staff Photo)\" width=\"4032\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/STT-L-SCRANTONFIRE-02.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"1947174\" \/>Scranton firefighters work on the scene of a fire in the 1400 block of Vine Street in the Hill Section Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (Christine Lee\/Staff Photo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 One person was taken to a hospital after a fire broke out in a Hill Section&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,28,178,180,179,729],"class_list":["post-307446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307446","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=307446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}