{"id":97747,"date":"2026-01-27T06:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97747\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:27:11","slug":"fire-destroys-home-heavily-damages-another-on-adams-island-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97747\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys home, heavily damages another on Adams Island | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A two-alarm fire destroyed one home and heavily damaged a second one on Adams Island in Allentown Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The alarm was sounded just after 6:30 p.m., and crews arriving on scene reported flames coming from one structure, according to 911 dispatchers.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"IMG_1828.JPG\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/69780f8f90aee.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>Multiple fire departments responded to battle the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>The Allentown Fire Department said one firefighter had minor injuries but was already back to work.<\/p>\n<p>Snow made it difficult for crews to get close to the fire, the AFD said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Adams Island only has one fire hydrant, the department said, and it was not nearby.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"IMG_1825.JPG\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6978100ea8a0d.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A two-alarm fire destroyed one home and heavily damaged a second one on Adams Island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[47877,119,153,155,154,9779,26030,422,7778,5612],"class_list":["post-97747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-adams-island","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-blaze","tag-emergency-response","tag-fire","tag-fire-department","tag-house-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97747","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=97747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}