{"id":3462,"date":"2025-10-16T06:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3462\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T06:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:12:07","slug":"gofundme-started-for-family-that-lost-home-in-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3462\/","title":{"rendered":"GoFundMe started for family that lost home in blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/a-family-in-need-of-please-donate?attribution_id=sl:440947bf-a607-4127-8e40-7c4d41310af4&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1760216966&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp13_t1-amp17_ta&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link&amp;fbclid=IwVERTSANYh2VleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHmN3sOFjEmgQ6jznzWHKKIHNFcUjtZM-BwHzX9APFSj1h8qSEkGIP6fClrLF_aem_5hHDvnv1YSYPHYRuWCc42Q\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online fundraiser<\/a> is active for one of the families that lost their home in a fire that destroyed two residences \u00a0early Saturday in Emmaus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/10\/11\/emmaus-fire-ridge-street-damage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Witnesses reported<\/a> that the fire started on the porch of a home in the 200 block of Ridge Street and quickly spread to the neighboring side of the duplex.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Fire breaks out at a duplex on the 200 block of Ridge Road in Emmaus early Saturday morning, Oct. 11, 2025, causing major damage. (Tiffany Maslanka\/Contributed photo)\" width=\"2437\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TMC-L-EmmausFire-1011-01-3.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8185225\" \/>Fire breaks out at a duplex on the 200 block of Ridge Road in Emmaus early Saturday morning, Oct. 11, 2025, causing major damage. (Tiffany Maslanka\/Contributed photo)<\/p>\n<p>Amber Williams wrote on GoFundMe that she was living in the neighboring house with her\u00a072-year-old mother, 5-year-old daughter, 18-year-old daughter, 19-year-old son, spouse and dog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe unfortunately lost everything in this fire,\u201d Williams wrote. \u201cYears of memories and treasures are gone; however, we still have one another. I am asking for anyone\u2019s help at this point with anything you are capable of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported in the fire, but the Emmaus fire inspector said the two residences had been left uninhabitable due to substantial damage.<\/p>\n<p>Those who wish to donate to the GoFundMe may do so at <a href=\"https:\/\/gofund.me\/254a56325\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gofund.me\/254a56325<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An online fundraiser is active for one of the families that lost their home in a fire that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,1413,3151,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-penn","tag-emmaus","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","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=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}