Boyertown Elementary School in Berks County, Pennsylvania, is closed on Monday after a fire broke out inside a classroom overnight. <\/p>\n
Fire officials reported that crews arrived at the school shortly after 1:30 a.m. on Monday, April 20, 2026, in response to the fire alarm activation.<\/p>\n
When crews got to the scene, officials said they found smoke in the hallway coming from one room. <\/p>\n
Officials reported that a bulletin board was found on fire in the room. The fire was put out a short time later. <\/p>\n
School officials issued a statement following the incident, announcing that the school will be closed on Monday:<\/p>\n
“Due to an early morning classroom-contained fire, Boyertown Elementary will be closed today, Monday, April 20, 2026. Students and staff will follow a Flexible Instructional Day schedule.<\/p>\n
Students should complete activities on their FID choice boards.<\/p>\n
This message is for Boyertown Elementary only. All other district buildings will operate on a normal, in-person schedule.”<\/p>\n
It is unclear at this time how the fire started. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boyertown Elementary School in Berks County, Pennsylvania, is closed on Monday after a fire broke out inside a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-170693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-pennsylvania","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\/170693","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=170693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}