{"id":108629,"date":"2026-02-08T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108629\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:05:10","slug":"officials-respond-to-lengthy-power-outage-in-reading-warming-sites-to-open-reading-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108629\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials respond to lengthy power outage in Reading; warming sites to open | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A significant overnight power outage in Reading is affecting a wide area of the city, and preparations are underway to assist those needing a place to warm-up or recharge their devices.<\/p>\n<p>Reading fire officials have announced three warming\/charging locations to open beginning at 1 p.m. Sunday:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 3rd &amp; Spruce Recreation Center, 320 S 3rd St, Reading, PA 19602<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 10th &amp; Penn Elementary School,\u00a0955 Penn St, Reading, PA 19601<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Pendora Olivet&#8217;s Boys and Girls Club,\u00a0330 S 19th St, Reading, PA 19606<\/p>\n<p>These stations will not have food or sleeping accommodations, they are just places\u00a0for people to charge up and get warm.<\/p>\n<p>People are encouraged to bring their own charging chords\/power strips as the centers do run out of outlets.<\/p>\n<p>MetEd says their goal is to have power restored by 8 p.m. Sunday. Crews are working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible after an equipment issue at a local substation caused an outage overnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. More information regarding the outage and city services will be updated as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A significant overnight power outage in Reading is affecting a wide area of the city,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-108629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-berks","10":"tag-reading-city","11":"tag-reading-city-headlines","12":"tag-reading-city-news","13":"tag-reading-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108629","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=108629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}