{"id":270316,"date":"2026-08-22T19:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270316\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:28:19","slug":"berks-home-gutted-in-2-alarm-blaze-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270316\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks home gutted in 2-alarm blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities are investigating a two-alarm fire last weekend that left a Robeson Township home in ruins.<\/p>\n

The fire was reported Sunday shortly before 4 a.m. in the 300 block of Furnace Road. According to initial dispatches, the initial call reported there was a burglary in progress and that the roof was on fire. The homeowner stated she wasn\u2019t on her property, a dispatcher is heard saying.<\/p>\n

Around the same time, a neighbor also reported the 1 1\/2 -story home was on fire.<\/p>\n

Based on the initial information provided, the first-responding crew from Geigertown Fire Company waited at nearby High Point Baptist Academy for Robeson Township police to arrive.<\/p>\n

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BILL UHRICH – READING EAGLE<\/p>\n

A home in the 300 block of Furnace Road in Robeson Township is in ruins after a predawn blaze on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026. (BILL UHRICH – READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n

Police arrived a short time later and gave the all-clear for fire crews to proceed to the scene.<\/p>\n

Officers from Geigertown arrived to find the roof of the house engulfed in fire.<\/p>\n

The Exeter Township Fire Department arrived with an engine tanker and aerial ladder truck.<\/p>\n

The fire scene commander requested a second alarm, drawing crews from northern Lancaster and Chester counties to assist southern Berks companies.<\/p>\n

Tanker trucks shuttled water to a temporary fill site at the Baptist church. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

An investigation by the state police Troop L fire marshal\u2019s unit continues to determine the cause and manner of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are investigating a two-alarm fire last weekend that left a Robeson Township home in ruins. The fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,12748,706],"class_list":["post-270316","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-robeson-township","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270316","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=270316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}