Reading apartment catches fire due to ‘unattended cooking’ over Halloween weekend | Reading Area

READING, Pa. – City firefighters responded to a fire Sunday morning in the 200 block of Carpenter Street.

Crews were sent out about 11:45 a.m. to a two-story apartment, where they found a kitchen fire with some extension into the roof, according to a social media post from the Reading Firefighters Local 1803.

Crews quickly put out the fire, and the Office of the Fire Marshal is investigating, according to the same post.

Fire Marshal Jeremy Searfoss told 69 News the fire started from “unattended cooking,” causing “significant damage to the apartment.”

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