{"id":108541,"date":"2026-02-08T17:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108541\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:05:06","slug":"shelter-charging-opportunity-offered-for-people-affected-by-reading-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108541\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelter, charging opportunity offered for people affected by Reading outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Reading is establishing a warming\/charging station at the 3rd and Spruce Recreation Center to aid residents affected by an extended power outage impacting a multi-block area south of Penn Street.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at 1 p.m. today, the center at 320 S. Third St. will offer a place to warm up and charge cellphones, Berks County emergency officials announced Sunday morning. The site will not be offering food or a place to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>As of late Sunday morning Met-Ed was reporting 1,678 outages in Berks, with 1,543 of them in the city. The utility reported that crews worked through the night as they tackle a complex issue. Restoration of power is expected by 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Scattered outages were reported around the region Saturday amid high winds and extreme cold temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Reading is establishing a warming\/charging station at the 3rd and Spruce Recreation Center to aid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-108541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108541","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=108541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}