{"id":201029,"date":"2026-05-24T02:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201029\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T02:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:37:11","slug":"union-township-garage-fire-ruled-accidental-southern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201029\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Township garage fire ruled accidental | Southern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNION TWP., Pa. &#8211; A fire that destroyed a two-story garage in Union Township has been deemed an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Photos show the smoke and rubble as firefighters battled the flames Thursday in the 200 block of Mullen Road.<\/p>\n<p>State police say a man suffered burns to his face, neck and hands. The man is\u00a0said to be in critical but stable condition at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>No firefighters were hurt.<\/p>\n<p>State police say there are no fire hydrants in the area, so numerous tankers helped get water to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNION TWP., Pa. &#8211; A fire that destroyed a two-story garage in Union Township has been deemed an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,10384,128,130,129,8491],"class_list":["post-201029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-eastern-berks-county","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-southern-berks-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201029","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=201029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}