{"id":105453,"date":"2026-02-05T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T01:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105453\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T01:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T01:12:07","slug":"crews-battle-electric-vehicle-fire-in-western-berks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105453\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle electric vehicle fire in western Berks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews contained a vehicle fire in Bethel Township Wednesday evening, according to emergency reports.<\/p>\n<p>Initial calls about 5 p.m. reported an electric SUV engulfed by flames in the 400 block of Beagle Road.<\/p>\n<p>The callers told emergency personnel that a container in the SUV caught fire and the flames spread to the entire vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Crews in the area reported heavy smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple apparatuses, including a tanker from Lebanon County, were called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Beagle Road was closed between Little Mountain Road and Meckville Road.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was contained about 5:07 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews contained a vehicle fire in Bethel Township Wednesday evening, according to emergency reports. Initial calls about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[50952,279,46043,50951,422,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-105453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-beagle-road","tag-berks","tag-bethel-township","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-fire","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105453","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=105453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}