{"id":169093,"date":"2026-04-18T02:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169093\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:39:10","slug":"brush-fire-contained-in-berks-county-multiple-fire-crews-respond-swiftly-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169093\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush fire contained in Berks County, multiple fire crews respond swiftly | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Fire crews are battling a brush fire in Berks County on Friday night.<\/p>\n

We’re told the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) are on the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials tell us the fire is contained, and that there is no threat to any structures in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fire started around 8:15 p.m..<\/p>\n

Crews from multiple fire departments responded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials say their quick work helped prevent more damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s unclear at this time what could have started the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Fire crews are battling a brush fire in Berks County on Friday night. We’re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-169093","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\/169093","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=169093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}