{"id":65671,"date":"2025-12-19T23:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65671\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:30:13","slug":"outages-downed-trees-cause-problems-as-strong-winds-blow-through-berks-county-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65671\/","title":{"rendered":"Outages, downed trees cause problems as strong winds blow through Berks County | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; Throughout Berks County, thousands experienced power outages and wind damage Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>In the Lyons area, the wind toppled a tree onto a trailer, trapping a person inside. Authorities say no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>In Alsace Township, a tree fell onto Gebhart School Road.<\/p>\n<p>And in Union Township, a wire on the ground next to a damaged pole sparked a small fire at French Creek State Park.<\/p>\n<p>Met-Ed says its crews will work around the clock to get all customers back up and running as quickly and safely as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Berks County will remain under a wind advisory until 1 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; Throughout Berks County, thousands experienced power outages and wind damage Friday afternoon. In the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,34890,35003,28,2138,128,130,129,34893],"class_list":["post-65671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-high-winds","tag-met-ed","tag-pennsylvania","tag-power-outages","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-storm-damage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65671","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=65671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}