{"id":60122,"date":"2025-12-13T15:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60122\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:13:08","slug":"fire-tears-through-sawmill-in-upper-tulpehocken-twp-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60122\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire tears through sawmill in Upper Tulpehocken Twp. | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U. TULPEHOCKEN, Pa. &#8211; A fire broke out at a Berks County sawmill.<\/p>\n<p>It happened Friday morning in Upper Tulpehocken Township.<\/p>\n<p>At least six fire companies were called to Moyer&#8217;s Sawmill on Pearl Road.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Moyer's sawmill fire 361 Pearl Rd Upper Tulpehocken Twp Berks County\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/693c149dce488.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Chad Blimline<\/p>\n<p>The Strausstown Fire Chief tells us the fire burned for a while before they arrived, and it didn&#8217;t take long to get under control.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt in the fire, but some firefighters slipped on ice while working.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal believes the fire may have been caused by an electrical issue in the business&#8217; office, but investigators are working to make a final determination.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials say the building, which has been part of the community for more than 60 years, is a total loss.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Moyer's sawmill fire 12-2-25\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/693c14f3d7a7c.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Chad Blimline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U. TULPEHOCKEN, Pa. &#8211; A fire broke out at a Berks County sawmill. It happened Friday morning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,422,813,32657,128,130,129,32655,32656],"class_list":{"0":"post-60122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-fire","10":"tag-firefighters","11":"tag-moyer","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-sawmill","16":"tag-upper-tulpehocken-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60122","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=60122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}