{"id":60979,"date":"2025-12-14T21:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60979\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:57:06","slug":"apartment-fire-displaces-19-residents-in-whitehall-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60979\/","title":{"rendered":"Apartment fire displaces 19 residents in Whitehall Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EBQX6Z652NB73AGFCAIAN77KAU\">Emergency crews responded to a fire at an apartment building on Saturday night that left the structure uninhabitable and displaced nearly 20 residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5FHGLRUQKZBJXGGJYBWPRDWMLY\">Police received calls about the fire at 1 Maryland Circle after 8 p.m. on Dec. 13, according to Sergeant Kevin Sell of the Whitehall Township Police Department. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IIAXHOG7GFC2BDSBLYCDPW67WY\">Officers told reporters the building is \u201cunsafe to inhabit,\u201d and as of Dec. 14, no one is allowed inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JY4UEQ66SJFXNP54CIURCBKXJY\">The cause of the fire remains unknown and will need to be investigated by the fire department, Sell said. The Whitehall Township fire chief did not immediately respond to inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EZFQGNFNTJBDFMB46B4EGLO5GI\">Nineteen residents relied on volunteer assistance following the fire, according to the Red Cross Pennsylvania Rivers Chapter. The organization set up a temporary shelter at Whitehall Township High School and provided food, shelter, relief supplies, emotional support and other assistance to those affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews responded to a fire at an apartment building on Saturday night that left the structure uninhabitable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-60979","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60979","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=60979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}