Dozens of people have been displaced after an apartment building fire in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
According to the Bethlehem Fire Department, at 1:17 p.m. on Friday, May 2, 2025, the Northampton County 911 Center received multiple calls reporting a structure fire.<\/p>\n
Officials said the City of Bethlehem Fire Department was dispatched and arrived on scene at 510 E. 3rd St. within minutes. <\/p>\n
At the scene, fire crews found a five-story building that contained both apartments and businesses on fire. <\/p>\n
Officials said thick smoke was pouring from the rooftop and filling the street below. Strong winds also fanned flames across the rooftop. <\/p>\n
According to officials, multiple fire crews were called to assist with this four-alarm fire. Crews were able to evacuate all the residents without any reported injuries. The fire was placed under control around 6:50 p.m.<\/p>\n
Officials said the building will remain closed while repairs are being made. All 135 displaced residents were transported to a hotel. <\/p>\n
The fire originated on the roof of the building, and the cause of the fire is under investigation, officials said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of people have been displaced after an apartment building fire in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. According to the Bethlehem…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,434,28],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","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=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}