{"id":125534,"date":"2026-02-27T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125534\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T23:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:00:10","slug":"detached-garage-destroyed-by-blaze-in-southern-berks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125534\/","title":{"rendered":"Detached garage destroyed by blaze in southern Berks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews battled a blaze that destroyed a detached garage in Robeson Township Friday afternoon, according to emergency reports.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports from residents about 2:48 p.m. said there was an explosion followed by flames at a detached garage in the 400 block of Sell Road.<\/p>\n<p>Residents were safely away from the fire when the call came in, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>One person was reportedly taken to Reading Hospital for burn treatment, according to reports. It was unclear whether they were a firefighter or civilian.<\/p>\n<p>The scene drew a large response from firefighters, who reported that flames had fully engulfed the 20-by-30-foot garage.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency callers said there were cans of gas and a vehicle in the garage.<\/p>\n<p>Crews fought the fire for about 45 minutes. Firefighters were being released from the scene about 3:45 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews battled a blaze that destroyed a detached garage in Robeson Township Friday afternoon, according to emergency reports.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-125534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","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\/125534","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=125534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}