{"id":55937,"date":"2025-12-09T08:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55937\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:41:18","slug":"scranton-fire-chief-confirms-1-displaced-after-house-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55937\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton fire chief confirms 1 displaced after house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-071249-e1765206896831-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-595253\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO\/PHOTOS: As the winter weather is upon us in northeastern Pennsylvania, Scranton firefighters braved the elements to battle a house fire Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Lackawanna County officials confirmed with 28\/22 News that firefighters were called to the 3200 block of Cedar Avenue in Scranton for a house fire at about 5:50 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton Fire Department was leading the response to the incident, and no one has been reported injured.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say no one was home at the time of the fire, and the fire did not pose a threat to neighboring homes.<\/p>\n<p>28\/22 News spoke with Scranton Fire Department Deputy Chief Dan Hallowich, who confirmed one person has been displaced as a result of the fire and is getting help from the Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chief Hallowich added that crews ended up tapping into a hydrant farther away for better water pressure to fight the fire.<\/p>\n<p>So far, authorities do not know what caused the house fire, and the incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>WBRE-TV NBC 28 Wilkes-Barre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO\/PHOTOS: As the winter weather is upon us in northeastern Pennsylvania, Scranton firefighters braved the elements to battle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[8338,28,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-55937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-mid-atlantic-region","9":"tag-pennsylvania","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\/55937","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=55937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}