{"id":311150,"date":"2026-10-21T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311150\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:00:13","slug":"three-alarm-fire-damages-vacant-former-supermarket-in-old-forge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311150\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-alarm fire damages vacant former supermarket in Old Forge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OLD FORGE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Fire crews responded to a third-alarm fire Sunday evening at the vacant former Ray\u2019s ShurSave supermarket on Lawrence Street in Old Forge.<\/p>\n<p>The first alarm was dispatched at 6:03 p.m. for a report of smoke coming from the building. Old Forge police arrived and found multiple fires inside, along with a container of accelerant near one of them, according to information provided by responders.<\/p>\n<p>The call was upgraded to a second alarm at 6:27 p.m. and a third alarm at 6:44 p.m. Firefighters from Lackawanna and Luzerne counties responded. Old Forge and Duryea Excelsior firefighters used large-area search ropes attached to fire trucks to help crews inside the building find their way back out.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Street was closed at West Grace Street during the response. Crews began clearing the scene after about two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Ray\u2019s ShurSave closed in 2018, and the building has been vacant since. Old Forge police and the Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial image courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61571661037623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Dolan Fire Photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OLD FORGE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Fire crews responded to a third-alarm fire Sunday evening at the vacant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-311150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311150","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=311150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}