{"id":307004,"date":"2026-10-15T06:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307004\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T06:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:05:14","slug":"fallen-tree-causes-power-outages-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307004\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen tree causes power outages in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 A fallen tree knocked out power for more than 1,500 Met-Ed customers Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It happened in the area of South Seventh and Haak streets in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>A number of traffic lights in the area were also out.<\/p>\n<p>Crews worked quickly to make repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Power was restored for most people by 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 A fallen tree knocked out power for more than 1,500 Met-Ed customers Wednesday afternoon. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7282,35003,9174,736,128,130,129,42957],"class_list":["post-307004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-fallen-tree","tag-met-ed","tag-power-outage","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-traffic-lights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307004","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=307004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}