Posts by John Eisenhard

Back to standard time

October 28, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

This is the weekend to do a minor chore at your home. Daylight savings time ends and we turn the clocks back 1 hour at 2a.m. Sunday. Most of us will do that Saturday night before we go to bed. Either way, this weekend is the time to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and test them to make sure they are in pr [...]

Mt. Penn Chimney Fire

October 25, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

On October 25, shortly before 8a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Lower Alsace (Co4), Exeter (Co25), Oley (Co5), Birdsboro (Co7) and Reading City Tower & Engine 1 to the 100 block of South 22nd St. for a reported chimney fire with multiple calls being received from neighbors. Arriving units found what appeared to be excessive smoke [...]

Alsace Crash

October 18, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

On October 17 shortly before 7:30p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Lower Alsace (Co4), Oley (Co5) and Exeter (Co25) to Antietam Rd. in the area of Simmons Rd. for a vehicle crash with injuries. On arrival a car was found to have struck a tree about 10ft off the road with all occupants out. The driver was injured and transported to th [...]

Training time

October 7, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

Recently the crew headed to the Berks County Fire Training site for our fall burn. The focus was on hoseline management which everybody, especially our newer members, found was not as easy as they thought. All lines had to be advanced through the baker’s alley then into the basement & up to the first or second floor to attack the [...]

Fire Prevention Week 2020

October 4, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

Fire Prevention Week 2020 is upon us. Although things are quite different at the current time, fire prevention is everyone’s business. The theme this year is “Serve up fire safety in the kitchen.” That may sound a bit simple and out of date but the kitchen is one part of the house that many spend quite a bit of time [...]

Raffle time!

September 30, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

Set a reminder for 12 noon on Friday, October 2nd. That’s when the Mt. Penn Fire Company will be kicking off our raffles with some really great prizes! Drawings will be live on the fire company Facebook page & payment is via the Square app. The rules are below so take a chance and win some great prizes!

Exeter crash & fire

September 16, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

On September 15, shortly after 10p.m. Exeter(Co25) was dispatched for a vehicle crash at 4851 Perkiomen Ave. Additional information indicated a vehicle struck a building and both were now on fire. The assignment was upgraded to a structure fire. On arrival the units found a vehicle that struck the end of the residence, [...]

Exeter Crash

September 13, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

On September 12 just after 10p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched, along with several other companies, to assist Exeter Twp(Co25) with a reported structure fire after a vehicle pursuit and crash at Apollo Pools in the township. First arriving units found a vehicle into the building with fluids and unknown chemicals down. The fire had been knoc [...]

Remember

September 11, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

Today was a beautiful September day…..in 2001 Today many of us got up for work not knowing what the day would bring…..in 2001 Today would change many of our lives forever…..in 2001 Today many of us would lose friends & family…..in 2001 Today places in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania would become sa [...]

Steady into September

September 2, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

Well, August is history and here we are in September already. August became our busiest month in department history with 73 calls logged for everything from trees and wires to vehicle crashes and a few structure fire calls thrown in for good measure along with other odds and ends. Our all volunteer staff has done excellent work keeping up [...]

2026
Month	Fire Calls	Total
January	0	0
February	0	0
March	0	0
April	0	0
May	0	0
June	0	0
July	0	0
August	0	0
September	0	0
October	0	0
November	0	0
December	0	0
Totals	0	0

Working Fires	0

2025					470
2024					685
2023					727
2022					683