{"id":54758,"date":"2025-12-07T22:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/54758\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T22:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:40:20","slug":"crews-tackle-second-alarm-fire-in-berks-county-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/54758\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews tackle second alarm fire in Berks County | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Crews battled a second alarm fire in Berks County on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was the scene on the 100 block of North 5th Street around 3:00 p.m..<\/p>\n<p>The calls originally came in as a 1st alarm, and was later upped to two alarms.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how severe it was at this point &#8211; but crews got the fire under control.<\/p>\n<p>The Reading Firefighters Union said that units are still on the scene as of 5:00 p.m..<\/p>\n<p>We have calls out to officials and are waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Crews battled a second alarm fire in Berks County on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 This was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-54758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-reading-city","10":"tag-reading-city-headlines","11":"tag-reading-city-news","12":"tag-reading-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54758","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=54758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}