{"id":133975,"date":"2026-03-10T00:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133975\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T00:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:24:06","slug":"firefighter-injured-battling-brush-shed-fire-in-central-berks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133975\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter injured battling brush, shed fire in central Berks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A firefighter was injured battling a fire that consumed a shed and camper in Alsace Township Monday afternoon, emergency reports said.<\/p>\n<p>The initial call about 3:45 p.m. reported a detached shed on fire in the first block of Oley Road. There was no one in the shed at the time of the call, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters on the scene said the fire had fully consumed a 10-by-20-foot shed and spread to the surrounding brush and a nearby camper.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple brush trucks and tankers were called in and the fires were reported under control shortly after 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were using rakes and leaf blowers to search for and contain remnants of the fire, reports said. Smaller brush fires erupted and were controlled during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>One firefighter was taken for treatment by emergency services during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Further information was unavailable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A firefighter was injured battling a fire that consumed a shed and camper in Alsace Township Monday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49540,"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-133975","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\/133975","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=133975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}