{"id":89864,"date":"2026-01-18T02:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89864\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T02:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:44:07","slug":"bethlehem-house-fire-goes-to-3-alarms-amid-freezing-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89864\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem house fire goes to 3 alarms amid freezing temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews are responding to a house fire amid freezing temperatures Saturday evening in South Side Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>The fire in the 1200 block of Mechanic Street, at the intersection with Hobart Street, was reported just before 8 p.m., according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NorthamptonCEA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northampton County Emergency Alerts Facebook page<\/a>. Fire officials later struck a third alarm on the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Photos shared by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LehighValleyBreakingNews\/posts\/pfbid0zUaMsY8ocN6NBBj2UchZxWgZHbjunnYBFvZG6UopHBe3XuBAP4pukRvCk2SViP4Fl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lehigh Valley Breaking News Facebook page<\/a> showed heavy smoke coming from the back of a twin home.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters battled the blaze as temperatures dropped into the mid 20s, well below freezing, following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/01\/17\/lehigh-valley-snow-saturday-crashes-interstate-78\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snowstorm that dumped 5 inches of snow over parts of the Lehigh Valley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews are responding to a house fire amid freezing temperatures Saturday evening in South Side Bethlehem. The fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1391,202,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":["post-89864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89864","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=89864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}