EARL TWP., Pa. – Several crews responded to a two-alarm house fire that broke out Thursday morning in Berks County.<\/p>\n
The fire was reported by a witness who noticed black smoke coming from the residence and called emergency response crews.<\/p>\n
Crews arrived on scene at a house in the 800 block of Mountain Road in Earl Township at 7:50 a.m. Upon arrival, officials say fire was venting from the front and rear of the structure.<\/p>\n
According to authorities, due to the significant volume of fire and limited manpower, a second alarm was requested, bringing firefighters from eastern Berks County and western Montgomery County.<\/p>\n
Crews say they brought the fire under control within an hour and remained on scene for approximately three hours to extinguish hot spots and conduct overhaul.<\/p>\n
A Pennsylvania State Police fire marshal determined the flames originated in the rear of the first floor, within the kitchen area. The cause of the fire was determined to be accidental.<\/p>\n
No one was home when the fire broke out, but family members confirmed their two dogs were removed from the house prior to firefighters arriving.<\/p>\n
No major injuries resulted from the incident, officials say. One firefighter was treated on scene for heat exhaustion.<\/p>\n
According to authorities, the house sustained significant damage, which is estimated to be in excess of $300,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EARL TWP., Pa. – Several crews responded to a two-alarm house fire that broke out Thursday morning in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,10384,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-298071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-eastern-berks-county","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298071","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=298071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}