{"id":304540,"date":"2026-10-11T17:16:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304540\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T17:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:16:54","slug":"family-of-four-rescued-many-others-displaced-after-3-alarm-blaze-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304540\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of four rescued, many others displaced after 3-alarm blaze in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A fire in a single-family home in Reading quickly spread to adjoining buildings early Sunday, with firefighters working to rescue those inside.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Fire Marshal Jeremy Searfoss says crews were called to the 600 block of N. 9th Street scene at 3:24 a.m., and found fire rapidly spreading from the first floor.<\/p>\n<p>A third alarm was called at 4:10 a.m..<\/p>\n<p>Four people from the family living in the single home were rescued and taken to the hospital, including one juvenile.<\/p>\n<p>Two firefighters suffered minor injuries, one of which one was hurt rescuing the juvenile.<\/p>\n<p>Searfoss said the fire spread across multiple homes, displacing around 20 people, possibly more.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross is assisting those affected by the blaze.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were once again called to the scene around 11a.m. Sunday when the blaze rekindled and was smoldering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A fire in a single-family home in Reading quickly spread to adjoining buildings early Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-304540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","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\/304540","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=304540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}