{"id":277496,"date":"2026-09-02T18:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277496\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:10:14","slug":"lightning-strikes-tree-causing-damage-to-house-in-exeter-twp-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277496\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes tree, causing damage to house in Exeter Twp. | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXETER TWP., Pa. &#8211; During the heavy storms in Berks County on Tuesday night, lightning struck a tree outside of a home in Exeter Township.<\/p>\n<p>The Exeter Fire Department says just before 7 p.m., fire crews and automatic aid partners were called to a possible structure fire\/lightning strike on Wegman Road.<\/p>\n<p>Units arrived on scene to find a slight haze in the basement with damage to the residence from the lightning strike, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>According to fire officials, lightning struck a tree, and the energy from the strike broke apart a portion of the driveway, yard, porch, and some items in the basement.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Exeter crews say they cleared the scene in under 30 minutes. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXETER TWP., Pa. &#8211; During the heavy storms in Berks County on Tuesday night, lightning struck a tree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,26030,1411,7778,68448,59374,128,130,129,34893],"class_list":["post-277496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-emergency-response","tag-exeter-township","tag-fire-department","tag-lightning-strike","tag-property-damage","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-storm-damage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277496","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=277496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}