{"id":76240,"date":"2026-01-02T15:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76240\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:47:22","slug":"no-one-to-be-charged-in-five10-flats-fire-in-bethlehem-police-say-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76240\/","title":{"rendered":"No one to be charged in Five10 Flats fire in Bethlehem, police say | State"},"content":{"rendered":"

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Police in Bethlehem say nobody will be charged in a\u00a0fire that tore through the roof of a Bethlehem apartment building last May.<\/p>\n

135 people were displaced after the fire that broke out at the Five 10 Flats in Southside Bethlehem.<\/p>\n

City of Bethlehem Police Detectives met with the Northampton County District Attorney\u2019s Office to discuss the facts of the case,\u00a0spokesperson Capt. William Audelo said.<\/p>\n

\"Crews<\/p>\n

He said it was advised that criminal charges would not be recommended. Therefore, no charges were filed, he said.<\/p>\n

Officials previously said that the fire, which started on the building’s roof, was caused by “improperly discarded smoking materials.”<\/a><\/p>\n

The night of the fire, former Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan told 69 News that surveillance video showed somebody putting a cigarette out in a planter on the roof prior to the fire.<\/p>\n

No one was hurt in the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Police in Bethlehem say nobody will be charged in a\u00a0fire that tore through the roof…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,31,2892,2894,1856,2900,2897,13687],"class_list":{"0":"post-76240","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-crime","12":"tag-criminal-justice","13":"tag-criminal-law","14":"tag-law-enforcement","15":"tag-legal-action","16":"tag-misconduct","17":"tag-national-security"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76240","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=76240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}