{"id":71672,"date":"2025-12-28T04:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71672\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T04:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:49:10","slug":"allentown-man-charged-with-arson-in-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71672\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man charged with arson in house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown man is accused of setting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/12\/19\/allentown-fire-south-10th-street-police-rescue-man\/?utm_email=64D5846A546F049EB465B5F36B&amp;active=no&amp;lctg=64D5846A546F049EB465B5F36B&amp;utm_source=listrak&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mcall.com%2f2025%2f12%2f19%2fallentown-fire-south-10th-street-police-rescue-man%2f&amp;utm_campaign=trib-morning_call-breaking_news-nl&amp;utm_content=alert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a house fire last Friday<\/a> that resulted in two residents being displaced.<\/p>\n<p>City police said that Julio Rodriguez, 51, of the 700 block of South 10th Street was charged with arson, recklessly endangering another person and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to the 700 block of South 10th Street at 1:45 p.m. Dec. 19 for a report of a house fire with a person inside who was experiencing a mental health crisis and was possibly armed.<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers and members of the Allentown Fire Department rescued the occupant.\u00a0Two officers and the occupant were taken by paramedics to a hospital to be evaluated and are recovering, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The two displaced residents are being assisted by the Red Cross, according to fire department spokesperson Jon Hammel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man is accused of setting a house fire last Friday that resulted in two residents being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-71672","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","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-lehigh-county","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71672","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=71672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}