{"id":238291,"date":"2026-07-08T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238291\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:12:08","slug":"fire-guts-home-damages-second-in-western-berks-county-western-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238291\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts home, damages second in western Berks County | Western-berks-county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARION TWP., Pa. &#8211; Firefighters say fire gutted one home and damaged another in western Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>Flames were reported around 10:00 Tuesday morning at a home in Marion Township.<\/p>\n<p>The home is on Main Street, near Marion Drive.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fire guts home, damages second in western Berks County\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4d58d1bdfbe.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Chad Blimline<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters say the fire started on the second floor of one home and caused damage to a neighboring home.<\/p>\n<p>He says a number of people will have to find another place to stay because of the damage.<\/p>\n<p>No word on how the fire started.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARION TWP., Pa. &#8211; Firefighters say fire gutted one home and damaged another in western Berks County. Flames&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,6753,19144,422,813,25946,5612,21554,3628,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-238291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-emergency","tag-evacuation","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-home-damage","tag-house-fire","tag-marion-township","tag-police-investigation","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\/238291","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=238291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}