{"id":217308,"date":"2026-06-12T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217308\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:07:08","slug":"about-50-displaced-after-fire-rages-through-apartment-complex-in-muhlenberg-township-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217308\/","title":{"rendered":"About 50 displaced after fire rages through apartment complex in Muhlenberg Township | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUHLENBERG TWP., Pa. \u2013 About 50 people are\u00a0displaced after\u00a0a fire that ripped through a Berks County apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>Flames broke out just before 9 p.m.\u00a0at the Oak Forest Apartments in the 2200 block of Hampden Boulevard in Muhlenberg Township.<\/p>\n<p>State police say no one was hurt, but about 50 people were displaced, and neighbors say they lost power.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Hampden Boulevard apartment fire in Muhlenberg Township\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a2b732cbbfbb.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Chad Blimline<\/p>\n<p>They also believe they&#8217;ve identified the apartment where the fire started.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Mayor Eddie Moran took to social media, saying in part, &#8220;Please keep the many families and first responders affected by this tragic situation in your thoughts and prayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUHLENBERG TWP., Pa. \u2013 About 50 people are\u00a0displaced after\u00a0a fire that ripped through a Berks County apartment complex.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-217308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","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\/217308","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=217308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}