One person was displaced in a fire near Lackawanna County Prison Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
Fire personnel were called to 1336 N. Washington Ave. at about 9:20 a.m. and remained on scene for about two hours, according to Scranton Fire Chief John Judge.<\/p>\n
Judge described damage to the single family residence as \u201cmoderate\u201d and \u201crepairable.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the fire was caused by an electrical problem, with fire and smoke causing damage to the inside of the structure.<\/p>\n
The sole occupant of the home, a man, was not home at the time of the fire.<\/p>\n
Judge said the man, who he believed would be only temporarily displaced, received assistance from the Red Cross.<\/p>\n
The house didn\u2019t have smoke detectors, according to Judge. He reminds residents installing smoke detectors in their home is a way to save lives and property.<\/p>\n
Every residence, Judge said, should have the appropriate amount of smoke detectors installed.<\/p>\n
The Scranton Fire department runs a free smoke detector installation program for city residences. If a resident need smoke detectors, are a Scranton resident, and want to join the program, contact Fire Prevention Officer Daniel Frantz at 570.348.4164 ext. 1 or email smokedetectors@scrantonpa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person was displaced in a fire near Lackawanna County Prison Thursday morning. Fire personnel were called to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[21702,178,21701,180,179,21700],"class_list":["post-34711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county-prison","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-fire-department","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-smoke-detectors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34711","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=34711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}