{"id":298085,"date":"2026-10-02T03:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298085\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T03:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:25:27","slug":"crews-tear-down-chemical-plant-severely-damaged-by-fire-in-2023-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298085\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews tear down chemical plant severely damaged by fire in 2023 | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Crews are demolishing a former chemical plant in Reading that was damaged by two arson fires three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln Chemical Company is being torn down as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s effort to get rid of hazardous waste from the site.<\/p>\n<p>The building, at South 9th and Laurel Streets, first caught fire on Halloween day in 2023. The second fire broke out two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators later determined both were arson. There have still been no arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Crews are demolishing a former chemical plant in Reading that was damaged by two arson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-298085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298085","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=298085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}