{"id":60453,"date":"2025-12-14T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60453\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:12:08","slug":"whitehall-township-apartment-fire-goes-to-4-alarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60453\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitehall Township apartment fire goes to 4 alarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters Saturday evening are responding to a large apartment building fire in Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported on Maryland Circle in Fairmount Place Apartments around 8:20 p.m., according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LehighEmergencyAlerts\/posts\/pfbid02zN17RLXXriKg7xu6TaC4k2X3PPp9dYqqiKgnVHGMzwUbbHzU5PHgJQcuBzsht1Gbl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emergency Alerts of Lehigh County Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters arrived to find a building in the complex fully involved. Photos shared to social media showed flames and heavy smoke coming from the building.<\/p>\n<p>A nearby PennDOT traffic camera showed heavy smoke billowing into the sky in the area of the complex, which is located near Route 22 and Macarthur Road.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze had gone to 3 alarms by around 8:30 p.m., according to emergency radio dispatches.\u00a0Just before 9 p.m., the fire was reported to be advancing from the second floor to the third floor, according to radio dispatches.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth alarm was struck a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters Saturday evening are responding to a large apartment building fire in Whitehall Township. The fire was reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,139,28,432,1653,1654],"class_list":{"0":"post-60453","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","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-lehigh-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-top-stories-tmc","16":"tag-whitehall-area","17":"tag-whitehall-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60453","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=60453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}