{"id":3532,"date":"2025-10-16T06:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3532\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T06:58:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:58:22","slug":"fire-guts-home-in-lower-merion-township-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3532\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts home in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire ripped through a home on Centennial Road in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania overnight. Officials say the blaze broke out just before 1:30 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials were first alerted of the blaze when a resident saw flames shooting up from the house, which is surrounded by a wooded area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When crews arrived, they experienced heavy smoke and flame conditions and had to call in crews from Belmont Hills, Gladwyne and Cynwyd to assist in the operation.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lower-merion-fire-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"lower-merion-fire-1.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Belmont Hills Fire Company<\/p>\n<p>It took crews several hours to get the fire under control, and due to the severity of the flames and structural integrity of the home, they had to establish a collapse zone.<\/p>\n<p>The scene was clear by 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>There are no injuries reported and the cause of the fire is under investigation by the Lower Merion Fire Marshal&#8217;s office and the Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal&#8217;s office.\u00a0  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire ripped through a home on Centennial Road in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania overnight. Officials say the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[422,183,185,184,186,28],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-fire","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","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=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}