{"id":310352,"date":"2026-10-20T06:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310352\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T06:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:18:08","slug":"kitchen-fire-at-reading-restaurant-spreads-through-ductwork-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310352\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen fire at Reading restaurant spreads through ductwork | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A two-alarm structure fire broke out early Sunday afternoon at a restaurant on South 19th Street in Reading.<\/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. According to the Reading fire marshal\u2019s office, crews had to open up the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Crews assisted with extensive overhaul and were able to clear the scene shortly after 1 p.m., fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries. The restaurant was empty, as was an apartment above the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said the fire spread from a \u201crestaurant kitchen hood\u201d through the ductwork of the apartment above.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant will need extensive work, and the case is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A two-alarm structure fire broke out early Sunday afternoon at a restaurant on South 19th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-310352","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\/310352","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=310352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}