{"id":318685,"date":"2026-11-01T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/318685\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:00:11","slug":"underground-fire-breaks-out-in-hempfield-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/318685\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground fire breaks out in Hempfield Township"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EthanWESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n

An underground fire has broken out near the former Westmoreland Glass property. <\/p>\n

According to a statement from the Hempfield Fire Department, the fire broke out near the former industrial site near the area of the Chambers Avenue Extension. <\/p>\n

The fire department is also saying that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is overseeing the fire, though the department will continue to monitor from a public-safety perspective. <\/p>\n

Officials are asking people to not enter the property. They are also asking people, “to avoid the affected area and should not approach locations where smoke, fire, unstable ground, or other potential hazards may be present.” <\/p>\n

There has been no confirmation on what caused the fire. <\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates.<\/p>\n

Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 An underground fire has broken out near the former Westmoreland Glass property. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[900,2088,129671,6039,422,129673,10803,5866,6439,129676,28,13432,30,29,523,129675,6664,105380,129674,5910,129672,10254],"class_list":["post-318685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-action-news","tag-area","tag-environment-protection","tag-environmental-protection","tag-fire","tag-hempfield-fire-department","tag-hempfield-township","tag-location","tag-official","tag-other-potential-hazard","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-department","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-people","tag-public-safety-perspective","tag-smoke","tag-underground-fire","tag-unstable-ground","tag-westmoreland-county","tag-westmoreland-glass-company","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318685","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=318685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}