{"id":249601,"date":"2026-07-22T18:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249601\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:45:10","slug":"fire-at-berks-apartment-building-ruled-accidental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249601\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Berks apartment building ruled accidental."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A June fire that damaged two buildings at Oak Forest Apartments in Muhlenberg Township has been ruled accidental.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out at the apartment complex at 2271 Hampden Blvd. just before 9 p.m. on June 11. The damage impacted 20 units and displaced more than 30 people.<\/p>\n<p>State police reported Wednesday that the fire started due to an electrical issue in a void above the ceiling in one of the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>State police said the only ignition source found in the space was wiring and associated components.<\/p>\n<p>State police said that although there was a storm that produced lightning in the area, the buildings were not struck by lightning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A June fire that damaged two buildings at Oak Forest Apartments in Muhlenberg Township has been ruled accidental.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[202,182,139,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-249601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","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\/249601","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=249601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}