EASTON, Pa. – With just days until Christmas, two Easton families have lost everything, and one child remains in the hospital.<\/p>\n
Now, the city is rallying around those families and asking for donations.<\/p>\n
That fire broke out last Thursday on the 300 block of Williams Street. There is still melted siding and broken glass all over the yard.<\/p>\n
The affected families are asking for gift cards from places like Giant, Walmart and Target to help these families rebuild.<\/p>\n
Over a game of cards at their living room table on Palmer Street, sisters Loretta Williams and Barbara Sos recall how serious last week’s fire across the street really was.<\/p>\n
“Black smoke,” the sisters recalled.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out right around one in the afternoon last Thursday, right across the street from the sister’s card game.<\/p>\n
“He ran out the door on fire. They say he was on fire. They took a lady out too with smoke inhalation,” said Sos.<\/p>\n
The fire on Williams Street displaced three adults and five children, including an infant. A 14-year-old boy and his mother at had to be taken to the hospital, where the teen remains four days later, according to Councilman Frank Pintabone.<\/p>\n
“What I know is he is still at the hospital at Lehigh Valley Cedar Crest and they’re hoping for a release by tomorrow. Mom has been released,” says Pintabone.<\/p>\n
Councilman Pintabone is asking the public for donations in the form of gift cards to be dropped at the mayor’s office at the third floor of City Hall Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Easton Housing Authority is working on moving these two families to another home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – With just days until Christmas, two Easton families have lost everything, and one child remains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,5527,2347,36063,4509,2181,36066,36064,6111,5612,36065],"class_list":{"0":"post-68135","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","11":"tag-christmas","12":"tag-community-support","13":"tag-displaced-families","14":"tag-donations","15":"tag-easton","16":"tag-emergency-relief","17":"tag-gift-cards","18":"tag-hospital","19":"tag-house-fire","20":"tag-housing-authority"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68135","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=68135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}