{"id":221666,"date":"2026-06-17T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221666\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:07:07","slug":"2-children-stuck-in-storm-drain-in-spring-township-crews-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221666\/","title":{"rendered":"2 children stuck in storm drain in Spring Township, crews called"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews rescued two children trapped in a storm drain Wednesday afternoon, according to emergency reports.<\/p>\n<p>Reports about 3:20 p.m. noted two boys yelling from a storm drain in the 2200 block of Burkey Drive in Spring Township.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue crews confirmed the presence of kids in the storm drain and said they were accessing the drain from the Fromuth Racquet Sports store parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Responding officials recalled any units not already on the scene about 10 minutes after the initial call.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called back to the scene at 3:45 to assist with the removal.<\/p>\n<p>Further information was unavailable Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews rescued two children trapped in a storm drain Wednesday afternoon, according to emergency reports. Reports about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,3198,706],"class_list":["post-221666","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","tag-spring-township","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221666","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=221666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}