{"id":309874,"date":"2026-10-19T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309874\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:30:12","slug":"1-firefighter-injured-7-residents-displaced-following-allentown-fire-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309874\/","title":{"rendered":"1 firefighter injured, 7 residents displaced following Allentown fire | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Seven people were displaced following a single-alarm fire that filled an Allentown house with smoke Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3:30 p.m., the Allentown Fire Department, police, and paramedics responded to a reported house fire in the 1000 block of Cleveland Street, a press release says.<\/p>\n<p>When crews arrived on scene, there was severe smoke coming from the house. According to the fire department, with additional information, authorities determined that the kitchen was on fire.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Heavy smoke reported during house fire in Allentown\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792420212_674_6ad53b2d31d83.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Photo courtesy of Nester Video Productions<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials say all occupants of the homes evacuated on their own with no injuries. Seven people, however, are displaced, and the Red Cross is assisting those affected.<\/p>\n<p>One firefighter was transported to the hospital for burns and is reported to be in stable condition, the fire department says.<\/p>\n<p>According to the press release, the fire began on the first floor of the residence and extended to the second.<\/p>\n<p>The scene has been turned over to the Fire Marshal division for investigation into the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Seven people were displaced following a single-alarm fire that filled an Allentown house with smoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-309874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309874","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=309874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}