Fire crews were called to an Exeter Township residence late Monday morning after a large tree came down, striking the homeowner in the leg with one of its branches and snapping a Met-Ed pole.<\/p>\n
The tree toppled shortly after 10:40 a.m. in the 600 block of Gerhart Lane, which intersects Butter Lane, in Pennside.<\/p>\n
One of the limbs tore through a small part of the eave of the roof and entered the living quarters, Deputy Chief Brian Rhein of Exeter Township Fire Department said.<\/p>\n
The homeowner suffered a small cut to her leg. She called 911 but declined to be taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n
The building did not sustain significant structural damage. The homeowner\u2019s insurance carrier was notified to assess needed repairs, Rhein said.<\/p>\n
A Met-Ed pole was snapped near its base, downing high-tension wires and knocking out power to hundreds of Met-Ed customers in the area.<\/p>\n
Met-Ed crews were dispatched to replace the pole and restore the wires.<\/p>\n
Gerhart said heavy wind over the weekend may have weakened the tree, contributing to its eventual fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews were called to an Exeter Township residence late Monday morning after a large tree came down,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,1411,182,139,28,128,130,129,1015],"class_list":["post-67945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-exeter-township","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-mer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67945","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=67945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}