Crews quickly contained a fire in the kitchen of a home in Muhlenberg Township Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The fire was reported about 3 p.m. at a two-story home in the 1000 block of Bowman Street.<\/p>\n
Initial reports said someone may have been trapped, but the owner of the house later contacted firefighters to note that they were not there but were aware of a fire alarm and smoke in the kitchen.<\/p>\n
The crews quickly entered and stretched a line, knocking down the bulk of the fire within minutes.<\/p>\n
The fire reportedly started in the oven, with moderate amounts of smoke spreading throughout the home.<\/p>\n
Crews said the fire didn\u2019t spread into the walls. Searches of the building were negative.<\/p>\n
Firefighters said they were venting the building and removing the gas stove. Trucks that had yet to reach the scene were recalled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews quickly contained a fire in the kitchen of a home in Muhlenberg Township Monday afternoon. The fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-237021","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-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237021","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=237021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237021\/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=237021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}