{"id":75604,"date":"2026-01-01T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75604\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T15:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:15:06","slug":"fire-engulfs-barn-in-spring-twp-goat-dies-others-rescued-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75604\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire engulfs barn in Spring Twp.; goat dies, others rescued | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPRING TWP., Pa. &#8211; Fire officials say the weather made things difficult for crews fighting a fire that tore through a barn in Berks County Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Crews responded to the fire in Spring Township just after 7:30 a.m., Fire Chief Colin Hackman told 69 News.<\/p>\n<p>Hackman said the barn was fully involved and collapsing when crews got there.<\/p>\n<p>A goat died in the fire, he said. Two other goats and a mare that were in the barn were rescued, Hackman said.<\/p>\n<p>The weather made fighting the fire difficult because the road was icy, and crews had to bring in a township road crew to salt the road, Hackman said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire marshal is investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING TWP., Pa. &#8211; Fire officials say the weather made things difficult for crews fighting a fire that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[11338,38899,349,38900,128,130,129,3198],"class_list":["post-75604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-animal-rescue","tag-barn-fire","tag-berks-county","tag-goat","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-spring-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75604","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=75604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}