UPPER BERN TWP., Pa – It was a mass exodus out of the Amazon.<\/p>\n
“I heard there was a fire on the third floor and then it spread to the fourth floor,” said Melanie Lovell, an Amazon employee.<\/p>\n
Firefighters from Berks and Schuylkill counties responded to a fire at the Amazon Warehouse in Upper Bern Township Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Firefighters were dispatched around 9 a.m. to the warehouse in the 3500 block of Mountain Road for a reported structure fire.<\/p>\n
All employees were later sent home.<\/p>\n
“As far as I know there was a pipe burst going on. They basically told us to sit outside for a while and leave early,” said employee Griffin Betts.<\/p>\n
“I got here as everyone was evacuating the building,” Lovell said. “I heard there was smoke and sprinklers so everyone was just rushed out.”<\/p>\n
Employee say a similar incident occurred Thursday.<\/p>\n
“Yesterday, same thing happened. Sprinklers, smoke and we were all evacuated. It seemed like everything was okay though, so we were put back in the building. Just a little bit of a smell. Nothing too bad.”<\/p>\n
Amazon provided a statement, thanking first responders and saying they’re working with investigators to determine a cause and keep employees informed as to when operations will resume. The Pennsylvania State Police fire marshal was called to the scene to investigate.<\/p>\n
As for the employees?<\/p>\n
“Excited to go home,” Lovell said.<\/p>\n
“I’m okay. I got to leave early. Other than that, I hope everyone is okay,” Betts added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER BERN TWP., Pa – It was a mass exodus out of the Amazon. “I heard there was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1896,51739,279,83652,25505,1224,128,130,129,26667],"class_list":["post-187585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-warehouse","tag-berks","tag-bern","tag-fire-marshal","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-schuylkill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187585","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=187585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}