{"id":134837,"date":"2026-03-10T21:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134837\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:41:23","slug":"2-alarm-fire-damages-cow-barn-in-western-berks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134837\/","title":{"rendered":"2-alarm fire damages cow barn in western Berks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second alarm was struck for a fire that damaged a Marion Township barn containing dairy cows Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Initial calls at 2:24 p.m. reported a tractor fire in the 200 block of School Road that spread to a structure containing dairy cows.<\/p>\n<p>Crews at the scene reported heavy smoke showing from the heifer barn. A second alarm was struck due to a manpower shortage, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Crews had water on the fire within minutes of the initial call, and the blaze was quickly contained.<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of the fire was reportedly knocked down at 2:33 p.m., and it was placed under control at 2:50 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>All animals were safe and accounted for, reports said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second alarm was struck for a fire that damaged a Marion Township barn containing dairy cows Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[62207,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-134837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-a-second-alarm-was-struck-due-to-a-manpower-shortage","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134837","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=134837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134837\/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=134837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}