{"id":52932,"date":"2025-12-05T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52932\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:01:13","slug":"2-alarm-blaze-displaces-3-families-in-allentown-fire-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52932\/","title":{"rendered":"2-alarm blaze displaces 3 families in Allentown, fire official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EFSOG7Q3HVCNZM5HOWO372R3SM\">Three families were displaced Sunday when a swift-moving blaze swept through a row of attached homes in Allentown, a fire official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DGMZI7YHPRCGZDW5XAUXNUUT6Y\">Allentown Fire Department Captain of Public Affairs Jonathan Hammel said flames ignited at 3:15 p.m. in the 1500 block of West Allen Street. The fire originated in the center home of three row houses, with flames spreading to the structures on either side, Hammel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4OZNR46VZBCYBHRICNMSWCMNYY\">The fire was elevated to a second alarm to bring in more manpower. There were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZIHB7B46DRCJBKMRFJVDUEFGSM\">\u201cCrews worked diligently to keep the damage to the exposures as minimal as possible while bringing the fire under control,\u201d Hammel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2NXDDKZU4JA5HPGZARA2WQBHT4\">All three homes were deemed uninhabitable. The cause of Sunday\u2019s blaze remains under investigation by the Allentown fire marshal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three families were displaced Sunday when a swift-moving blaze swept through a row of attached homes in Allentown,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-52932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52932","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=52932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}