{"id":18411,"date":"2025-10-29T05:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/18411\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:35:22","slug":"three-alarm-fire-in-lower-alsace-township-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/18411\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-alarm fire in Lower Alsace Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews from around Berks County responded to a three-alarm fire in Lower Alsace Township Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to emergency dispatches, the fire broke out at about 3 p.m. at 500 Carsonia Ave in Pennside.<\/p>\n<p>Crews remained on scene for hours battling the blaze at the the large, three-story home, with heavy smoke and flames reported throughout the building.<\/p>\n<p>Crews opened large portions of the roof to contain the fire and ventilate the structure.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was placed under control about 5:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said they were referring homeowners to the Red Cross for assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports indicated that the occupants of the building got out safely.<\/p>\n<p>Watch for more details as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Firefighters from throughout Berks County remain on the scene of a three-alarm house fire in the 500 block of Carsonia Avenue in Pennside on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761716122_916_REG-L-CarsoniaAvenueFire1057.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2314053\" \/>Firefighters from throughout Berks County remain on the scene of a three-alarm house fire in the 500 block of Carsonia Avenue in Pennside on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Firefighters from throughout Berks County remain on the scene of a three-alarm house fire in the 500 block of Carsonia Avenue in Pennside on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761716122_872_REG-L-CarsoniaAvenueFire1058.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2314054\" \/>Firefighters from throughout Berks County remain on the scene of a three-alarm house fire in the 500 block of Carsonia Avenue in Pennside on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews from around Berks County responded to a three-alarm fire in Lower Alsace Township Tuesday afternoon. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,8512,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-18411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-lower-alsace-township","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-reading-city","15":"tag-reading-city-headlines","16":"tag-reading-city-news","17":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411","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=18411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}