A family was displaced by a fire Monday that caused extensive damage to their Hampden Heights home.<\/p>\n
Crews were dispatched shortly before 3 p.m. to the 1600 block of Palm Street after one of the residents placed a 911 call, said Lt. Trent Zulick of the Reading fire marshal\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
The first crew reported heavy flames coming from the rear of a 2 1\/2-story home. The fire had extended up into the second and third floors.<\/p>\n
Firefighters cut holes in the roof to manage heavy fire and smoke on the second floor.<\/p>\n
A second alarm was struck to call in additional personnel to help open up walls and gain access to the upper floors during a search for additional fire.<\/p>\n
The fire was under control within 40 minutes, with some crews remaining to search for and put out hot spots.<\/p>\n
Zulick said the fire started on the first floor, and it was deemed accidental.<\/p>\n
The first floor was extensively damaged, with smoke and water damage throughout, he said. A damage estimate was unavailable.<\/p>\n
A total of eight people \u2014 five adults and three children \u2014 won\u2019t be able to return to the home until repairs are made, the fire lieutenant said.<\/p>\n
The family is being assisted with emergency needs by the American Red Cross and relatives, Zulick said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family was displaced by a fire Monday that caused extensive damage to their Hampden Heights home. Crews…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-179383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179383","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=179383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}