{"id":203253,"date":"2026-05-27T07:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/203253\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:18:31","slug":"downed-power-line-injures-person-interrupts-service-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/203253\/","title":{"rendered":"Downed power line injures person, interrupts service | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 A power line came down Tuesday afternoon, leaving part of the Reading area dealing with power problems.<\/p>\n<p>Officials on scene said a wire came down and injured one person in the area of North Tenth and Pike streets. The person has minor burns, they said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear why the wire came down.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday afternoon, Met-Ed&#8217;s website showed more than 300 homes and businesses in the area were without service, but as of Tuesday night, service has since been restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 A power line came down Tuesday afternoon, leaving part of the Reading area dealing with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-203253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203253","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=203253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}