{"id":97434,"date":"2026-01-26T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97434\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:22:09","slug":"sinkhole-opens-in-lehigh-county-forcing-families-to-evacuate-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97434\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole opens in Lehigh County, forcing families to evacuate | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-01-26 154141.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1653\" height=\"930\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6977d2468f7b1.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Mike Nester | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; What started as a routine Monday afternoon quickly turned into a safety concern for neighbors in one Allentown block.<\/p>\n<p>A sinkhole opened along the 1200 block of North 15th Street between Fairmount and Woodlawn streets on Monday afternoon, according to the Lehigh County Authority.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-01-26 154102.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1919\" height=\"930\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6977d1ea0ab33.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"97\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Mike Nester | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the call came in around 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>As a safety precaution, two homes were evacuated, and both families have been relocated to a hotel. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-01-26 154235.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1919\" height=\"927\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6977d26b5a28c.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"97\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Mike Nester | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Nester | for WFMZ-TV ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; What started as a routine Monday afternoon quickly turned into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,6753,19144,433,47800,294,16975,26299],"class_list":{"0":"post-97434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-emergency","12":"tag-evacuation","13":"tag-lehigh-county","14":"tag-north-15th-street","15":"tag-public-safety","16":"tag-relocation","17":"tag-sinkhole"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97434","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=97434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}