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<\/p>\nOne person died in a home fire Wednesday morning in Exeter Township.<\/p>\n
The fire in the 1200 block of Dauphin Place, off Chapel Hill Road, was reported by a neighbor shortly before 7 a.m., Exeter Township Fire Department Deputy Chief Matt Eshenaur said.<\/p>\n
The first crew on scene put a hose line in service within seconds of arriving and mounted an interior attack, he said. They were able to contain the fire to one end of the small single-story house.<\/p>\n
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STEVEN HENSHAW – READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n
Fire officers and Berks County deputy coroners prepare to remove the body of a fire victim from a home in the 1200 block of Dauphin Place in Exeter Township after a fire Wednesday morning. (STEVEN HENSHAW – READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n
Firefighters found the victim inside the house. Firefighters quickly put out the rest of the flames and called for the Berks County coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Crews from Birdsboro Union Fire Department and the Monarch, Amity, Keystone of Boyertown and Mount Penn fire companies also responded.<\/p>\n
Deputy coroners removed the body shortly after 9 a.m.<\/p>\n
Investigators with the state police Troop L fire marshal\u2019s unit were on the scene beginning an investigation into the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n
The home is believed to have been occupied by one resident.<\/p>\n
The neighborhood where the fire occurred consists of dozens of premanufactured houses that were built as rental homes in the 1960s, but many are owner-occupied, according to a resident. He said the small homes were built on a slab and colloquially referred to as the \u201cPeiffer Homes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The land was owned by Donald Peiffer and Harold Hart, who also owned Buddies Nursery, a fixture along Route 422 for decades before it closed in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person died in a home fire Wednesday morning in Exeter Township. The fire in the 1200 block…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,1411,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-80369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-exeter-township","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news","16":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80369","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=80369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}