Crews in Berks County battled a pair of brush fires amid high temperatures Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The first fire was reported about 1 p.m. in a Richmond Township field east of Kehl Drive.<\/p>\n
Brush trucks and ATV units were called to the scene. Heavy fire was initially reported with the flames moving toward a nearby tree line. Crews stopped the flames, secured the perimeter and performed extensive operations to contain smoldering remains. Crews were leaving the scene about 2:10 p.m.<\/p>\n
A fire in the 400 block of Maple Grove Road in Brecknock Township initially involved a shed, with the flames spreading to a nearby area.<\/p>\n
Callers about 1:35 p.m. reported a shed that caught fire while they were cutting wood. The flames spread uphill with the wind, covering about a 200-by-200-foot area.<\/p>\n
Brush trucks and ATVs were called in. Crews ran lines and used rakes and blowers to contain the fire\u2019s spread.<\/p>\n
The fire burned about a quarter of an acre before it was contained about 2:15 p.m. Crews began an extensive overhaul operation that wrapped up shortly after 3:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews in Berks County battled a pair of brush fires amid high temperatures Wednesday afternoon. The first fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33291,"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-166878","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\/166878","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=166878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}