{"id":141152,"date":"2026-03-17T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141152\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:21:09","slug":"strong-storm-winds-level-a-barn-overnight-in-berks-southern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141152\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong storm winds level a barn overnight in Berks | Southern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRECKNOCK TWP., Pa. &#8211; Officials say the damage happened around 10:30 Monday night as storms moved through Berks and Lancaster counties.<\/p>\n<p>The Fivepointville Fire Company says members responded to the 1000 block of Beam Road in Brecknock Township, where they found a large debris field across the property.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Pieces of debris strewn around farm property\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1659\" height=\"1249\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b9bc0c3e740.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"151\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pieces of debris strewn around the property<\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of Fivepointville Fire Company<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe definitely had a weather event of some sort. Basically, a lot of damage in our area,\u201d said Jared Artus, assistant chief of the Fivepointville Fire Company.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters say strong winds tore through a farm.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"lancaster barn.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1659\" height=\"1249\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b9bc638e09e.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"151\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of Fivepointville Fire Company<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn that property there was, I believe, six different buildings that were affected,\u201d Artus said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the destruction, everyone inside the home was safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe residents were actually going into the basement as it struck\u2026 so that was one nice thing,\u201d Artus said.<\/p>\n<p>Even the animals inside the barn made it through the storm.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Barn collapse with cow\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1659\" height=\"1249\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b97320d9279.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"151\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cow safe among the barn debris<\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of Fivepointville Fire Company<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was 10 cows that were in the first floor\u2026 none of which were injured,\u201d Artus said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say they believe the damage was caused by straight-line winds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EMA manager for our area, for Brecknock Township, is continually doing an investigation and submitting that to the state to do further investigations just to confirm that it was a straight-line wind event. As far as we know, that&#8217;s exactly what happened,\u201d Artus said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews say storms like this can be unpredictable, so you should always stay alert when severe weather moves through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRECKNOCK TWP., Pa. &#8211; Officials say the damage happened around 10:30 Monday night as storms moved through Berks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,19073,35651,26030,1835,64648,3685,128,130,129,1522,34893,64647],"class_list":["post-141152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-brecknock-township","tag-debris","tag-emergency-response","tag-farm","tag-fivepointville-fire-company","tag-lancaster-county","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-severe-weather","tag-storm-damage","tag-straight-line-winds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141152","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=141152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}