{"id":80414,"date":"2026-01-07T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80414\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:29:08","slug":"demolition-crew-called-to-scene-of-partial-building-collapse-in-reading-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80414\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition crew called to scene of partial building collapse in Reading | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The partial collapse of a house in downtown Reading resulted in a demolition crew being called to the scene to help bring the building down safely.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Fire Marshal Jeremy Searfoss says the call came in shortly after 1 a.m. today for the partial collapse of a residential building in the 100 block of Poplar Street.<\/p>\n<p>Searfoss says the front wall of the home was deemed unsafe and a demolition company was brought in to start the process of demolishing the structure to ensure the safety of nearby residents.<\/p>\n<p>An adjoining home was evacuated for safety reasons and four people were displaced, Searfoss says.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word at this time if the collapsing home was occupied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The partial collapse of a house in downtown Reading resulted in a demolition crew being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17163,40777,23051,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-80414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-building-collapse","9":"tag-demolition","10":"tag-jeremy-searfoss","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80414","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=80414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}