{"id":76661,"date":"2026-01-03T01:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76661\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:24:13","slug":"smoke-billows-out-of-church-in-pittsburghs-knoxville-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76661\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke billows out of church in Pittsburgh\u2019s Knoxville neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b1950ec9f880351211dcc9295104b4be.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Smoke billowed out of a church in Pittsburgh\u2019s Knoxville neighborhood on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-smoke-billows\/5PWIICB2ANAVZIR6WXULMRCOVU\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here for photos from the scene.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here for photos from the scene.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Allegheny County dispatchers said firefighters were called to the 100 block of Jucunda Street at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Smoke has been steadily pouring out of the upper part of the church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pittsburgh firefighters said the church was abandoned and no longer in use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews said they were able to knock the fire down within an hour. The fire was placed under control at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smoke billowed out of a church in Pittsburgh\u2019s Knoxville neighborhood on Friday. Click here for photos from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,73,75,74,6664],"class_list":["post-76661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-smoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76661","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=76661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}