{"id":52515,"date":"2025-12-04T23:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52515\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:43:07","slug":"crews-battle-house-fire-in-spring-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52515\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle house fire in Spring Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews contained a kitchen fire at a Spring Township home Thursday night. Initial calls at about 6 p.m. reported a kitchen fire with smoke coming from a house on the 2000 block of Highland Street, near the intersection with Intervilla Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Crews on location reported heavy smoke pouring from the front door and flames in the kitchen. A line was deployed using a hydrant in front of the building. Those in the home were advised to evacuate, according to emergency reports.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reportedly knocked down within minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Crews contained smoldering remains and smoke from the second floor and attic area and the fire was placed under control at about 6:20 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews contained a kitchen fire at a Spring Township home Thursday night. Initial calls at about 6 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-52515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52515","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=52515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}