{"id":208749,"date":"2026-06-02T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208749\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:26:09","slug":"ruling-issued-in-oley-vehicle-fire-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208749\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruling issued in Oley vehicle fire death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office has issued a ruling on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/05\/26\/1-killed-in-oley-township-vehicle-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">death discovered after a May 26 Oley Township vehicle fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A 69-year-old Oley Township man was found dead after the fire at 9:43 a.m. in the 4000 block of Friedensburg Road. The body was discovered after the fire was extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>Further information on the victim\u2019s identity was not available.<\/p>\n<p>Following an autopsy, the cause of death was determined to be thermal burns and smoke inhalation, and the manner of death was ruled suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Berks Police Department, state police fire marshal and Oley Fire Company also responded to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office has issued a ruling on a death discovered after a May 26 Oley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-208749","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208749","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=208749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}