{"id":78632,"date":"2026-01-05T21:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78632\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:16:12","slug":"stockertown-house-fire-leaves-man-homeless-pets-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78632\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockertown house fire leaves man homeless, pets missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"47CXJZZ6FFBWDHSTNBIZ23YGJU\">A man has been left homeless following a two-alarm blaze Sunday afternoon in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Stockertown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Stockertown\"> Stockertown.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3G2SMOTL6NE6LJ2OJQPCG2W6WA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Forks%20Township\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Forks%20Township\">Forks Township<\/a> Fire Chief Michael Vinci said the fire began just before 12:40 p.m. at the bilevel home in the 100 block of Winona Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LBIA4CEXWBHUPNAELQKJFOGLRY\">Flames ignited in an upstairs bedroom, the fire chief said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QEK57MJJG5D5LDGWMLWGA4NJJE\">The male homeowner escaped safely on his own. One of his four cats was found deceased, another was rescued and two more are currently missing, Vinci said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XS4NNZWSL5B3VLPSYCC4UUH5IA\">There were no other reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KNOALD6NBZGCBF257ZCG2LOXD4\">The blaze went to two alarms to bring in more manpower, which included agencies from Wilson Borough, Palmer Township, Plainfield Township, Nazareth Borough and Upper Nazareth Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XEOQNPX2ZNEATNFRZNNZFYCE3M\">It took crews about 40 minutes to extinguish the flames, which were contained to the bedroom area, Vinci said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DXE3SKHJUZDMRKBTSSVPDUKCR4\">The house was deemed uninhabitable by fire officials due to extensive fire and water damage. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stockertown house fire leaves man homeless, pets missing\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PWBDQOYNOVD43KMZZB4OSVXEW4.JPG\"  \/>The two-alarm blaze on Winona Street took multiple fire departments 40 minutes to extinguish, with one cat found deceased and two still missing, Forks Township Fire Chief Michael Vinci said.Mike Nester | lehighvalleylive.com contributor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been left homeless following a two-alarm blaze Sunday afternoon in Stockertown. Forks Township Fire Chief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-78632","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78632","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=78632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}