{"id":105678,"date":"2026-02-05T06:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105678\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T06:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:49:07","slug":"hundreds-of-met-ed-customers-lose-power-in-parts-of-berks-county-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105678\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Met-Ed customers lose power in parts of Berks County | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLEETWOOD, Pa. \u2013 Hundreds of Met-Ed customers were in the dark Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>FirstEnergy&#8217;s outage map showed a large outage along Route 662, through Fleetwood Borough and Richmond Township.<\/p>\n<p>The first reports started coming in just after 6 p.m. The outage map showed the issue was resolved just before 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>At its peak, more than 1,600 customers were without power.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word on what caused the outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLEETWOOD, Pa. \u2013 Hundreds of Met-Ed customers were in the dark Wednesday night. FirstEnergy&#8217;s outage map showed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,33592,16423,35003,9174,128,130,129,12128],"class_list":{"0":"post-105678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-firstenergy","10":"tag-fleetwood","11":"tag-met-ed","12":"tag-power-outage","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news","16":"tag-richmond-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105678","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=105678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}