Amity TWP., Pa. – A Berks County home faced serious heat, smoke, and water damage following a house fire that occured on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The residential fire broke out on Monday around 1:30 p.m. at the 100 block of Indian Run Drive.<\/p>\n
According to the Amity Twp. Deputy Fire Marshal, the homeowner wasn’t in the house when the fire started, but got an alert from his home security cameras of smoke.<\/p>\n
The fire marshal says the owner called fire officials remotely, giving the firefighters a head start. This call prevented a total loss of the residence, officials say.<\/p>\n
Fire officials say a dog was rescued from the home before emergency response teams arrived. No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n
Support was received from fire companies from three different counties due to the heat and a lack of nearby fire hydrants, authorities say.<\/p>\n
The fire marshal says the fire was put under control within 20 minutes of dispatch.<\/p>\n
The Red Cross has been contacted, and the resident is staying with family members who live in the area.<\/p>\n
It is unknown what caused the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amity TWP., Pa. – A Berks County home faced serious heat, smoke, and water damage following a house…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7755,349,7750,17162,5612,111124,26422,128,130,129,28212],"class_list":["post-262923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-amity-township","tag-berks-county","tag-douglassville","tag-fire-damage","tag-house-fire","tag-indian-run-drive","tag-no-injuries","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-residential-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262923","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=262923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}