{"id":92201,"date":"2026-01-21T02:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92201\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T02:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:31:07","slug":"ruthies-diner-on-fire-crews-battling-blaze-at-lincoln-hwy-ligonier-pennsylvania-see-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92201\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruthies Diner on fire: Crews battling blaze at Lincoln Hwy, Ligonier, Pennsylvania; see videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">A massive fire broke out at Ruthies Diner at 1850 Lincoln Hwy, Ligonier, <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/pennsylvania\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Pennsylvania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania<\/a> on Tuesday, as per scanner reports. Reports indicated a building fire in Westmoreland County.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ruthies_1768960935509_1768960939053.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters seen battling a blaze at Ruthies Diner in Pennsylvania. (Facebook\/Western Pa Incident Audio\/News)\" title=\"Firefighters seen battling a blaze at Ruthies Diner in Pennsylvania. (Facebook\/Western Pa Incident Audio\/News)\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Firefighters seen battling a blaze at Ruthies Diner in Pennsylvania. (Facebook\/Western Pa Incident Audio\/News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">A local news outlet reported that crews were battling a \u2018large fire\u2019. Route 30 was reportedly closed on both sides due to the fire. Multiple companies are responding to the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">A cause for the <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/fire\/news\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fire<\/a> is not known yet. There are no injuries reported yet, as per The Tribune-Review. Ruthies Diner&#8217;s site notes that it closes at 8 pm, which is minutes before the fire was reported to 911.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of the incident were shared widely on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Visuals of fire at Ruthies Diner<\/p>\n<p>A page shared visuals from the scene and wrote \u201cFirst crew on scene with footage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Several people expressed sorrow at the news that the diner had caught fire. \u201cVery sad. Ruthies Diner on fire. Praying everyone is ok,\u201d the person wrote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">A person, seemingly fond of the food there, remarked \u201cOh no!!!!!!! The best breakfast around!!!\u201d. Yet another added, \u201cIt&#8217;s a sad sad day.\u201d Some people reminisced about the times they&#8217;d spent at the diner. \u201cNO!!!!! Just the other night when we drove past I was telling Roger and Willow how when I was a kid I&#8217;d order chocolate milk there even though it wasn&#8217;t a menu item and the waitress would always come back with it and some syrup still on the bottom of the cup for me to stir in..,\u201d a person remarked on <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/technology\/facebook-removing-the-like-button-here-s-everything-you-need-to-know-101762847448695.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Ruthies Diner has been a community staple since it opened doors in 1957, and the news of the blaze has sent shockwaves through the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Another video of the blaze was shared, from some distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">\u201cRuthie\u2019s Diner in Ligonier on Fire!,\u201d the person remarked. \u201cSo bad,\u201d added another. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive fire broke out at Ruthies Diner at 1850 Lincoln Hwy, Ligonier, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, as per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28342,45433,28,30,29,45431,45432,45434,45435],"class_list":["post-92201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-ligonier","tag-ligonier-fire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-ruthies-diner","tag-ruthies-diner-fire","tag-ruthies-diner-ligonier","tag-ruthies-diner-westmoreland-county-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92201","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=92201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}