{"id":255032,"date":"2026-07-29T22:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255032\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:57:09","slug":"berks-county-resident-taken-to-hospital-with-first-degree-burns-following-kitchen-fire-southern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255032\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County resident taken to hospital with first-degree burns following kitchen fire | Southern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amity TWP., Pa. &#8211; Fire officials say two people were burned in a kitchen fire in Berks County on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Amity Fire Company, one of the people burned was taken to the hospital with first-degree burns.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out this afternoon on the 200 block of Stephens Way, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said the residents of the home used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames, but got burned while trying to take the burned food outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amity TWP., Pa. &#8211; Fire officials say two people were burned in a kitchen fire in Berks County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7755,108691,108690,73923,108689,40433,67800,128,130,129,95066],"class_list":["post-255032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-amity-township","tag-burned-food","tag-fire-extinguisher","tag-fire-officials","tag-first-degree-burns","tag-hospitalization","tag-kitchen-fire","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-residential-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255032","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=255032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}