{"id":57515,"date":"2025-12-10T17:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57515\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:34:12","slug":"fire-at-west-side-hotel-in-scranton-displaces-more-than-20-residents-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57515\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at West Side Hotel in Scranton displaces more than 20 residents \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scranton firefighters rescued at least five people from a burning building early Wednesday as a fire tore through their West Scranton apartments, Assistant Fire Chief Brian Scott said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to a structure fire at the West Side Hotel, 129 S. Main Ave., at 2:03 a.m. Wednesday, Scott said. As the three-story, multi-unit building burned, firefighters used ladders to rescue people hanging out of windows on the third floor, with others rescued from the interior, he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scranton firemen work at the West Side Hotel in Scranton...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-WESTSIDE-1211-03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Scranton firemen work at the West Side Hotel in Scranton Wednesday, December 10, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scranton firemen work at the West Side Hotel in Scranton...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-WESTSIDE-1211-02.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-WESTSIDE-1211-02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Scranton firemen work at the West Side Hotel in Scranton Wednesday, December 10, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>Scranton firemen work at the West Side Hotel in Scranton Wednesday, December 10, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Scranton Fire Department escalated it to a third-alarm fire due to its severity, drawing in first responders from surrounding communities, including the Dunmore Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>City firefighters continued working to extinguish the flames late Wednesday morning, with off-duty members called in to respond to other emergencies, Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 residents were displaced, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The American Red Cross opened an emergency shelter at the West Scranton High School to assist displaced residents, including providing food, shelter, relief supplies and emotional support, according to a press release from the Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton firefighters rescued at least five people from a burning building early Wednesday as a fire tore through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-57515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-lackawanna-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-scranton","13":"tag-scranton-headlines","14":"tag-scranton-news","15":"tag-top-stories-stt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57515","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=57515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}