EASTON, Pa. — Easton’s fire chief said Saturday that officials cannot account for everyone who was inside the Hotel Hampton rooming house when a three-alarm fire tore through the building Friday, and that K-9 units will search all debris removed from the site.
“We do not have an accurate account of the people that were in this building,” Chief Henry Hennings said at a morning press conference outside the destroyed five-story structure at 462 Northampton St. The Northampton County coroner stood nearby.
No one has been reported missing, Hennings said, but 42 of the building’s 48 units were occupied and officials have not been able to confirm that every resident made it out. Crews plan to haul the debris to a separate location where dogs trained in detection work will go through it…