{"id":21313,"date":"2025-11-01T00:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21313\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T00:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:21:21","slug":"victim-of-reading-storage-unit-fire-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21313\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim of Reading storage unit fire identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-year-old woman was identified as the person who died in a storage unit fire last weekend in Reading\u2019s 18th Ward.<\/p>\n<p>Kyra C. Bernstel was identified with the aid of dental records, Berks County Chief Deputy Coroner George Holmes said.<\/p>\n<p>Reading firefighters discovered the body in a self-storage unit after putting out a predawn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2025\/10\/27\/reading-firefighters-discover-body-after-extinguishing-storage-unit-blaze\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blaze<\/a> Oct. 26 that engulfed a row of lockers in the first block of North Angelica Street, about a half-block east of Lancaster Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The first-arriving crew reported heavy fire along a row of storage units. Firefighters forced open the units and extinguished the stubborn flames.<\/p>\n<p>While pulling out material to put out hot spots, they found the remains of a person inside one of the units.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the city fire marshal\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Fire Marshal Jeremy Searfoss said the victim appears to have been residing in the unit.<\/p>\n<p>Although people in need of housing sometimes take up occupancy in storage unit, they are not designed for human occupancy, the fire marshal said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old woman was identified as the person who died in a storage unit fire last weekend in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-21313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news","16":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21313","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=21313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}