{"id":67579,"date":"2025-12-22T15:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67579\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:11:05","slug":"they-lost-everything-easton-councilman-is-organizing-fire-victim-fund-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67579\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They lost everything.\u2019 Easton councilman is organizing fire victim fund drive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XW43CAAFXNGJDOXEVERKP2HHRU\">An Easton city councilman has organized a donation drive for the victims of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/easton\/2025\/12\/adult-child-injured-in-southside-easton-house-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/easton\/2025\/12\/adult-child-injured-in-southside-easton-house-fire.html\">fire last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HEPNO2NACZA3HHJFYCSVG6IGFI\">Councilman Frank Pintabone says one child hurt in the fire remains at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Salisbury Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"I2RXZM3XKVDFPIDACWMU2JIFYY\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/easton\/2025\/12\/adult-child-injured-in-southside-easton-house-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/easton\/2025\/12\/adult-child-injured-in-southside-easton-house-fire.html\">fire<\/a> on Thursday, Dec. 18, has rendered two attached homes uninhabitable in the 300 block of Williams Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SGUR333FJBGDDEOE4KEFRI5SGU\">Two adults and four children were displaced, Pintabone said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3IVKUFLYUJBPZECGRVFBLBEYXA\">\u201cThey lost everything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OFDMXC32KJGSNAJAJ4W7SAOFH4\">He\u2019s looking for gift card donations of any amount from stores such as Target, Walmart and Wawa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QK7NOVLBSNFFDB7FG4P6SVAR4Y\">You can drop off the gift cards Monday and Tuesday at the mayor\u2019s office on the third floor of City Hall, 123 S. Third St. in Easton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HQI4DKE665EKRHO2YMXP5SV32U\">Pintabone isn\u2019t looking for cash. Nor is he looking for clothes because the families don\u2019t have anywhere to store them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LDXD67DKRNEDTLR24SZUIMEQRM\">If you want to donate something after Tuesday or have any follow-up questions, you can reach Pintabone at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/easton\/2025\/12\/mailto:fpintabone@easton-pa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fpintabone@easton-pa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Easton city councilman has organized a donation drive for the victims of a fire last week. Councilman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-67579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67579","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=67579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}