{"id":55507,"date":"2025-12-08T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55507\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:56:10","slug":"fire-destroys-home-in-scranton-displaces-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55507\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys home in Scranton, displaces owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cause of a fire that destroyed a house in Minooka remains undetermined and might never be known because of the extent of the damage, Scranton Fire Chief John Judge said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the chief, the fire at 3229 Cedar Ave. was reported Sunday at 5:46 p.m. and already had significantly progressed by the time firefighters arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The owner who lived there alone was not home at the time and there were no injuries reported. The Red Cross is assisting the displaced resident.<\/p>\n<p>Judge said it took firefighters about 45 minutes to control the flames. They remained on scene overnight in case any hotspots reignited.<\/p>\n<p>An engineer will determine whether the house is a total loss. Part of the rear collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have a city engineer look at the structure (Monday) to see if it needs to be taken down,\u201d Judge said. \u201cThe cause is undetermined because of the extent of the damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first hydrant that was used to fight the fire, and which is fed by an older smaller-diameter water main, did not provide enough water volume, and firefighters had to use a different hydrant connected to a larger water-main supply, Judge said.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze\u2019s radiant heat melted some siding on a home next door. The neighboring home remains livable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A fire at 3229 Cedar Ave. in Scranton on Sunday,...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-FIRE-1209_4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A fire at 3229 Cedar Ave. in Scranton on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (COURTESY OF COLIN GILDEA\/NEPA FIRE PHOTOGRAPHY\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A fire at 3229 Cedar Ave. in Scranton on Sunday,...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-FIRE-1209.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-FIRE-1209.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A fire at 3229 Cedar Ave. in Scranton on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (COURTESY OF COLIN GILDEA\/NEPA FIRE PHOTOGRAPHY\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A fire at 3229 Cedar Ave. in Scranton on Sunday,...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-FIRE-1209_5.jpg?w=330\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-FIRE-1209_5.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A fire at 3229 Cedar Ave. in Scranton on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (COURTESY OF COLIN GILDEA\/NEPA FIRE PHOTOGRAPHY\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A fire at 3229 Cedar Ave. in Scranton on Sunday,...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-FIRE-1209_3.jpg?w=330\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-FIRE-1209_3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A fire at 3229 Cedar Ave. in Scranton on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (COURTESY OF COLIN GILDEA\/NEPA FIRE PHOTOGRAPHY\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A fire at 3229 Cedar Ave. in Scranton on Sunday,...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-FIRE-1209_2-1.jpg?w=330\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-FIRE-1209_2-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A fire at 3229 Cedar Ave. in Scranton on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (COURTESY OF COLIN GILDEA\/NEPA FIRE PHOTOGRAPHY\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 5<\/p>\n<p>A fire at 3229 Cedar Ave. in Scranton on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (COURTESY OF COLIN GILDEA\/NEPA FIRE PHOTOGRAPHY\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cause of a fire that destroyed a house in Minooka remains undetermined and might never be known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[422,30754,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-55507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-fire","9":"tag-minooka","10":"tag-scranton","11":"tag-scranton-headlines","12":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55507","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=55507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}