{"id":170668,"date":"2026-04-20T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170668\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:06:10","slug":"berks-elementary-school-closed-monday-after-overnight-fire-eastern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170668\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks elementary school closed Monday after overnight fire | Eastern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOYERTOWN, Pa. &#8211; An\u00a0elementary school in\u00a0Berks County is closed Monday after crews battled a fire in a classroom.<\/p>\n<p>It started around 1:40 a.m.\u00a0at Boyertown Elementary School Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials tell 69 News that it happened inside a classroom.<\/p>\n<p>They say a heating unit was on fire, and the blaze spread to books and a bulletin board.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Students and staff will follow a Flexible Instructional Day schedule, the district said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>The district says students should complete activities on their FID choice boards.<\/p>\n<p>All other district buildings will operate on a normal, in-person schedule, according to the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOYERTOWN, Pa. &#8211; An\u00a0elementary school in\u00a0Berks County is closed Monday after crews battled a fire in a classroom.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[27994,11198,69900,28,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-170668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-boyertown","9":"tag-boyertown-area-school-district","10":"tag-boyertown-elementary-school","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170668","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=170668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}