{"id":168752,"date":"2026-04-17T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168752\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:18:10","slug":"2-alarm-fire-heavily-damages-home-in-readings-18th-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168752\/","title":{"rendered":"2\u2011alarm fire heavily damages home in Reading\u2019s 18th Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze Friday that heavily damage a home in Reading\u2019s 18th Ward.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Reading firefighters put out hot spots after a two-alarm blaze tore through a home at North Carroll Street and Gregg Avenue in Reading's 18th Ward on Friday morning. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" height=\"371\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/REG-L-FireCarrollStreet240.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"5094183\" \/>Reading firefighters put out hot spots after a two-alarm blaze tore through a home at North Carroll Street and Gregg Avenue in Reading&#8217;s 18th Ward on Friday morning. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n<p>Crews were dispatched shortly after 10 a.m. to the home at North Carroll Street and Gregg Avenue for reports of smoke in the 2 \u00bd-story building. At the time, it was believed some residents may be trapped.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, firefighters reported fire on the upper floor, with all residents accounted for. Smoke was pushing through all four eves, they said.<\/p>\n<p>A second alarm was struck to draw more manpower.<\/p>\n<p>An American Red Cross team was requested to assist the displaced residents.<\/p>\n<p>The home is almost directly across Carroll Street from Pagoda City Brewhouse Taproom &amp; Lounge.<\/p>\n<p>Further information wasn\u2019t immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze Friday that heavily damage a home in Reading\u2019s 18th Ward. Reading firefighters put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-168752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news","16":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168752","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=168752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}