{"id":76989,"date":"2026-01-03T13:39:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76989\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:39:34","slug":"fire-crews-called-to-abandoned-church-in-pittsburghs-knoxville-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76989\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews called to abandoned church in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Knoxville neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAn investigation is underway after a fire broke out inside of an abandoned church in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Knoxville neighborhood Friday night.  Firefighters were called to the Old Knoxville United Church on Jacunda Street around 7 p.m. Friday. There were initial reports of an explosion inside, but the fire chief told Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4 crews that there was no evidence of an explosion. However, it grew to a three alarm response because of the size of the building. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is underway after a fire broke out inside of an abandoned church in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Knoxville neighborhood Friday night.  <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called to the Old Knoxville United Church on Jacunda Street around 7 p.m. Friday. <\/p>\n<p>There were initial reports of an explosion inside, but the fire chief told Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4 crews that there was no evidence of an explosion. <\/p>\n<p>However, it grew to a three alarm response because of the size of the building. <\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported. <\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after a fire broke out inside of an abandoned church in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Knoxville neighborhood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1304,39566,422,813,23194,73,18537,18685,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-76989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-1304","9":"tag-church-fire","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-firefighters","12":"tag-knoxville","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-fire","15":"tag-pittsburgh-firefighters","16":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","17":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76989","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=76989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}