{"id":234797,"date":"2026-07-03T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234797\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:00:08","slug":"bethel-twp-man-died-of-heat-related-causes-after-trimming-bushes-in-yard-coroner-says-western-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234797\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethel Twp. man died of heat-related causes after trimming bushes in yard, coroner says | Western-berks-county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHEL TWP., Pa. &#8211; Berks County Coroner Matt Stitzel said a 68-year-old Bethel Township man died of heat-related causes Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Stitzel said the man was outside trimming bushes in his yard and came inside the house and collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death was a heart attack due to cardiovascular strain due to heat exhaustion, Stitzel said.<\/p>\n<p>His manner of death was ruled natural.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHEL TWP., Pa. &#8211; Berks County Coroner Matt Stitzel said a 68-year-old Bethel Township man died of heat-related&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,37440],"class_list":["post-234797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-western-berks-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234797","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=234797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}