A three-alarm fire ripped through a high-occupancy building on the 400 block of Northampton Street in Easton on Friday, turning a busy stretch of downtown into an active disaster zone as smoke and sirens filled the area. By midday, the blaze had been escalated to three alarms, drawing firefighters from across Northampton County as multiple departments converged on the scene. Streets in the immediate area were shut down while crews fought the flames and tried to get control of a rapidly evolving situation.
Local volunteer companies, including the Nancy Run Fire Company in Middletown, reported early on that there were people trapped inside the building, and the Forks Township Fire Department described the incident on social media as “a developing dynamic fire call,”…..