{"id":81384,"date":"2026-01-08T15:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81384\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:08:21","slug":"firefighter-injured-after-fall-from-ladder-during-west-pittston-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81384\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter injured after fall from ladder during West Pittston house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 adults and 3 kids made it out of their West Pittston home okay after a fire broke out in the second-floor bedroom on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>WEST PITTSTON, Pa. \u2014 A fire broke out in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/luzerne-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">West Pittston<\/a> home on Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The West Pittston Fire Department was called to a home along the 500 block of Luzerne Avenue after a fire broke out in a second-floor bedroom around 10:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>5 were inside the home: 2 adults and 3 kids. They made it out okay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A firefighter fell off a ladder from the second floor and suffered a leg injury; he was sent to the hospital, and there is no word yet on his condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire was out less than an hour later, just after 11:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate details on the cause of the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Newswatch 16 will update with more information as it becomes available.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 adults and 3 kids made it out of their West Pittston home okay after a fire broke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-81384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81384","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=81384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}