{"id":319035,"date":"2026-11-01T17:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T17:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319035\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T17:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T17:56:41","slug":"lehigh-county-house-fire-sparked-by-dead-grass-set-ablaze-with-propane-torch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319035\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County house fire sparked by dead grass set ablaze with propane torch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A propane torch being used to burn dead grass caused a house fire that displaced two residents Saturday in Heidelberg Township, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported around 3:53 p.m. Saturday in the 6300 block of Meadowville Road, Germansville Fire Co. Deputy Chief Randy Metzger said.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner said he was using a propane torch to burn dead grass in his front yard, causing shrubs to catch fire and spread to the one-story house, Metzger said.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven fire departments responded to the fire, Metzger said, including Germansville, Neffs, Schnecksville and New Tripoli. The fire was under control around an hour after it was reported, leaving fire damage to the first floor and roof as well as water damage in the basement.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is not under investigation, the deputy chief said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A propane torch being used to burn dead grass caused a house fire that displaced two residents Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,349,2376,202,20362,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-319035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-berks-county","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-heidelberg-township","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319035","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=319035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}