{"id":178699,"date":"2026-04-28T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178699\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:47:07","slug":"fire-near-reading-playground-intentionally-set-authorities-say-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178699\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire near Reading playground intentionally set, authorities say | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Authorities say a fire that broke out near Hillside Playground Tuesday was purposely set.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were called to the 300 block of North 14th Street around 12:30 this afternoon for a report of a fire.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the building suffered minor damage and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Plans were already in the works to replace the building, city officials say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Authorities say a fire that broke out near Hillside Playground Tuesday was purposely set. Crews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24815,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-178699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-hillside-playground","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","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\/178699","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=178699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}