{"id":59542,"date":"2025-12-12T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59542\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:00:11","slug":"accidental-fire-followed-by-minor-explosion-in-erie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59542\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Fire Followed by Minor Explosion in Erie | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"OSTROW APT FIRE.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>A working fire alarm helped alert other residents to get to safety this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Fire Inspector Don Sauer says the fire started when a resident was lighting a candle in his apartment around 10:30 this morning. The fire is being called \u201caccidental.\u201d A minor explosion was also triggered when rubbing alcohol spilled into an electrical outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The wheelchair-bound resident and his home health care worker were taken to the hospital. They are okay, but the apartment unit they were in is currently unlivable.<\/p>\n<p>Erie firefighters extinguished the fire in about five minutes at the Erie Housing Authority building on Davison Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A working fire alarm helped alert other residents to get to safety this Friday. Chief Fire Inspector Don&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32434,136,138,137,3891,13367,32435,7363],"class_list":{"0":"post-59542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-accidental-fire","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-explosion","13":"tag-fire-alarm","14":"tag-rubbing-alcohol","15":"tag-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59542","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=59542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}