{"id":217729,"date":"2026-06-12T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217729\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:11:07","slug":"dozens-displaced-in-reading-apartment-fire-officials-say-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217729\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens displaced in Reading apartment fire, officials say \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 50 residents were displaced on Thursday after, officials said, flames tore through the Oak Forest Apartments in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>According to fire officials, the incident happened at about 8:51 p.m. on Thursday when crews were called to the apartment complex along the 2200 block of Alsace Road in Reading to find &#8220;fire blowing out windows on the third floor.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>  <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@nbcphiladelphia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nbcphiladelphia?refer=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@nbcphiladelphia<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>About 50 residents were displaced on Thursday after, officials said, flames tore through the Oak Forest Apartments in Reading. According to fire officials, the incident happened at about 8:51 p.m. on Thursday when crews were called to the apartment complex along the 2200 block of Alsace Road in Reading to find &#8220;fire blowing out windows on the third floor.&#8221; In video shared by NBC10 viewer Makayla Trimble, crews could be seen working to extinguish the flames as them spread, burring through the roofs of at least three structures in the complex. Fire officials said no residents were injured in this incident, but two cats were killed by the fire. The flames were under control, officials said, after about two and a half hours. Officials also said fire alarms were going off and buildings were evacuated before the fire department arrived at the scene. An investigation is underway, officials said, to determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - nbcphiladelphia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7650502243858926349?refer=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; nbcphiladelphia<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>In video shared by NBC10 viewer Makayla Trimble, crews could be seen working to extinguish the flames as they spread, burning through the roofs of at least three structures in the complex.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNBC10 viewer Makayla Trimble shared this footage as flames tore through the Oak Forest apartment complex in Reading on Thursday night.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said no residents were injured in this incident, but two cats were killed by the fire. <\/p>\n<p>The flames were under control, officials said, after about two and a half hours. <\/p>\n<p>Officials also said fire alarms were going off and buildings were evacuated before the fire department arrived at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>An investigation is underway, officials said, to determine the cause of the fire. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 50 residents were displaced on Thursday after, officials said, flames tore through the Oak Forest Apartments in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-217729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","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\/217729","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=217729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}