{"id":309438,"date":"2026-10-18T19:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309438\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T19:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:22:08","slug":"crews-respond-to-2-alarm-structure-fire-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309438\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews respond to 2-alarm structure fire in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A two-alarm structure fire broke out early Sunday afternoon on S. 19th St. in Reading, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=1576955694465515&amp;id=100064532990539&amp;rdid=jdOG3Nfl7JdbP3Vb#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mt. Penn Fire Department said on social media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fire crews were dispatched just before 12:30 p.m. Sunday, with several other mutual aid companies on the second alarm to assist, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the fire department, crews assisted with extensive overhaul &amp; were able to clear the scene shortly after 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A two-alarm structure fire broke out early Sunday afternoon on S. 19th St. in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-309438","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\/309438","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=309438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}