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<\/p>\nFire crews from Berks and Lancaster counties teamed up to battle a blaze that broke out late Monday at a former furniture store along Route 625 in Brecknock Township.<\/p>\n
The fire was discovered shortly before 10 p.m. at the former Griffith & Bixler store, 4444 New Holland Road. After that store closed, the building became a location for David\u2019s Furniture & Interiors, but that business closed down before the fire.<\/p>\n
Brandon Zerman, assistant chief of Brecknock Township Fire Company, said a portion of the building was under renovation by the current owner, and another portion was being used for storage by a window-installation company across the street.<\/p>\n
Zerman said the first-arriving crews knew they had a battle on their hands and called for additional alarms. The fire had entered the void space between the roof and ceiling.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt ran the whole roofline,\u201d Zerman said. \u201cThat was one of the biggest challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crews had difficulty attacking the roof fire because the floor space is divided by many walls, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went to a third alarm,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was one of the coldest nights we\u2019ve had this year, which slowed the water supply and created icy conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
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(Bill Uhrich – Reading Eagle<\/p>\n
A former furniture store along Route 625 in Brecknock Township lies damaged Tuesday morning following a three-alarm blaze. (Bill Uhrich \u2013 Reading Eagle)<\/p>\n
The companies called to the fire worked seamlessly rotating through fire attack, ventilation and overhaul to maintain momentum, he said.<\/p>\n
Route 625 was closed until after daybreak between Route 568 and Mifflin Drive.<\/p>\n
After nearly six hours of sustained operations, crews brought the fire under control. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Crews from the Cumru Township, Spring Township, Exeter Township and Western Berks fire departments assisted Brecknock firefighters along with the Mohnton, Kenhorst, Shillington, Geigertown and Gibraltar fire companies.<\/p>\n
They were joined by Lancaster crews from Adamstown, Cocalico, Caernarvon, Bowmansville, Reinholds, Churchtown, Fivepointsville, Martindale and Weaverland Valley.<\/p>\n
Canteen units from the Salvation Army in Boyertown and North Penn Goodwill Service in Montgomery County provided volunteers with hot food and drinks.<\/p>\n
A state police fire marshal investigated and determined the fire was accidental, but couldn\u2019t pinpoint the precise cause. A damage estimated was unavailable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews from Berks and Lancaster counties teamed up to battle a blaze that broke out late Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57079,"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-57078","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\/57078","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=57078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}