Strong winds that moved through our region Monday night into Tuesday morning left damage across parts of Berks and Lancaster counties. By sunrise Tuesday, the damage was easier to see.<\/p>\n
In Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, only a pile of debris was left of a barn after the storm tore through the area.<\/p>\n
Assistant Fire Chief Jared Artus with the Fivepointville Fire Co. said the damage shows just how strong the winds were.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely had a weather event of some sort. Basically, a lot of damage in our area,\u201d Artus said.<\/p>\n
Officials said the township\u2019s emergency management team is continuing to investigate the storm damage and report its findings to the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe [emergency management agency] 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’s exactly what happened,\u201d Artus said.<\/p>\n
In Union Township, Berks County, several roads had to close because of trees and wires down, including Morgantown Road, Chestnut Hill Road and Rock Hollow Road.<\/p>\n
Emergency crews said they were dealing with multiple calls overnight, especially in the Boyertown area.<\/p>\n
Sal DiPippa, the EMA coordinator with the Earl Township Fire Co., said the storm created dangerous conditions for crews.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast night was pretty trying. We had a bunch of trees down across the road. We did have a live wire down at a house with active fire\u2026until they shut the power off, we couldn’t do anything,\u201d DiPippa said.<\/p>\n
In Colebrookdale Township, Jeff Stapleton said the storm caught him by surprise. He said the power went out while he was watching TV.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really wasn’t that bad until about 10 o’clock last night, and then all of a sudden, the wind just really picked up,\u201d Stapleton said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strong winds that moved through our region Monday night into Tuesday morning left damage across parts of Berks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-142764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","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\/142764","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=142764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}