{"id":61496,"date":"2025-12-15T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61496\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:15:07","slug":"red-cross-relocates-shelter-for-residents-affected-by-whitehall-apartment-building-fire-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61496\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross relocates shelter for residents affected by Whitehall apartment building fire | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The American Red Cross Pennsylvania Rivers Chapter has moved its shelter for the residents displaced by\u00a0Saturday&#8217;s apartment building fire along Maryland Circle in Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross emergency shelter was relocated to Berrier Hall at Lehigh Carbon Community College (4525 Education Park Dr., Schnecksville, PA 18078), according to a news release from the organization.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Red Cross says the previous shelter located at Whitehall High School closed to allow the school to resume normal operations.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday morning, 19 people stayed overnight in the Red Cross shelter. Anyone in need of Red Cross assistance should call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).<\/p>\n<p>Flames could be seen shooting out of some of the windows and balconies in\u00a0Whitehall Township as fire fighters tried to knock the fire down Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear at this time what sparked the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The American Red Cross Pennsylvania Rivers Chapter has moved its shelter for the residents displaced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,433,805],"class_list":{"0":"post-61496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-allentown-area","13":"tag-lehigh-county","14":"tag-lehighvalley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61496","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=61496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}