{"id":147981,"date":"2026-03-07T21:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=147981"},"modified":"2026-03-07T21:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:06:44","slug":"pennsylvania-small-business-administration-sba-issues-a-declaration-of-a-disaster-for-the-hotel-hampton-fire-in-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=147981","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Small Business Administration (SBA) Issues a Declaration of a Disaster for the Hotel Hampton Fire in Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Northampton County, PA]\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0The Small Business Administration (SBA) of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has issued Disaster Declaration #21452 and #21453 for the Hotel Hampton Fire incident which occurred on February 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the declaration, notice is given that applications for disaster loans may be submitted online using the MySBA Loan Portal:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lending.sba.gov\/\">https:\/\/lending.sba.gov<\/a>\u00a0or in person at a Disaster Loan Outreach Center (DLOC) opening on Saturday March 7 at the following location:<sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>Easton City Hall<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>123 S. Third Street<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Easton, PA 18042<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The general hours will be:<br \/>\nMonday \u2013 Friday 9:00 a.m. \u2013 6:00 p.m.<br \/>\nSaturday 9:00 a.m. \u2013 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Loan options will be available for both residents and businesses affected who meet certain qualifications. The Disaster Loan Outreach Center is tentatively scheduled to close on March 21, 2026.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For further assistance please contact the SBA disaster assistance customer service center by email at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:disastercustomerservice@sba.gov\">disastercustomerservice@sba.gov<\/a>\u00a0or by phone at 1-800-659-2955. If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nNorthampton County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Northampton County, PA]\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Small Business Administration (SBA) of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has issued Disaster Declaration #21452 and #21453 for the Hotel Hampton Fire incident which occurred on February 20, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=147981\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pennsylvania Small Business Administration (SBA) Issues a Declaration of a Disaster for the Hotel Hampton Fire in Northampton County<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NC-Northampton.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}