{"id":63444,"date":"2025-12-17T16:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/63444\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:51:06","slug":"west-side-hotel-fire-still-under-investigation-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/63444\/","title":{"rendered":"West Side Hotel fire still under investigation \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cause of a fire at the West Side Hotel on Dec. 10 is still under investigation, according to Scranton Fire Chief John Judge.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called to the landmark at 129 S. Main Ave., at about 2 a.m. and remained into the afternoon to ensure the fire was completely extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>The fire displaced 26 residents and destroyed the three-story building, which has a bar on the first floor \u2014 Kilcoyne\u2019s Bar \u2014 and rooming houses above it, Judge said following the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross assisted the displaced residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cause of a fire at the West Side Hotel on Dec. 10 is still under investigation, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-63444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63444","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=63444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}