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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

November 26, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

Thanksgiving is just about here! The members of the Mt. Penn Fire Company hope you have a happy and enjoyable Thanksgiving Day with family and friends. Be extra nice to those who have to work this holiday like police, fire, EMS and hospital staff. As the “official” holiday season kicks off and we begin our countdown to Ch [...]

Check your home

November 16, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

As colder weather seems to be here for a while it’s a great time to check through your home as you spend more time indoors and prepare for the holiday season. Clean out clutter and look for overloaded outlets and surge protectors, have your heating system checked for proper operation and make sure your chimney is clean and solid befor [...]

It’s that time again!!

October 31, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

FALL BACK! Before you go to bed this Saturday night make sure you take a few minutes to change batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. It’s time to fall back to standard time and enjoy a whole hour of extra sleep…..unless you forget to turn your clocks back too. Working detectors save hundreds of lives per year [...]

3 Alarms in Lower Alsace

October 28, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

On October 28th just before 3p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched, along with several other mutual aid companies, to 500 Carsonia Ave. for a reported structure fire with possible entrapment. Assistant 1(Lombardo) was in the area and quickly called a working fire as heavy fire and smoke was showing. Chief 4(Mountz) arrived and quickly called a seco [...]

Home Depot Safety Day

October 4, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

On October 4th Mt. Penn joined with Amity, Exeter, Birdsboro, Gibraltar and Monocacy fire companies as well as Exeter Police in support of Home Depot’s Safety Day which is held the Saturday before Fire Prevention week. The weather was picture perfect! The project this year was a haunted house and after the kids completed this they got [...]

Regretful News

October 1, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

The Mt. Penn Fire Company is deeply saddened and regrets to announce the passing of our current president and past fire chief Barry (The Godfather) Vogt on October 1st, 2025. Barry began with Mt. Penn in 1963 long before most of us at Station 1 were around. He held various positions within the fire company throughout his many years of d [...]

September 11, 2001

September 11, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

So Long Summer

September 2, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

Here we are! The summer season is over, Labor Day has come and gone and the kids are back to school. Parents get a break…sort of. We would like to remind everybody that back to school and summer’s end mean a few things. There is more traffic on the roads, especially mornings and afternoons especially around school areas [...]

No Off Season

July 15, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

It’s the middle of summer for everybody, people enjoying the pool, cookouts and vacations. We are too but the calls don’t stop! Here we are halfway through the month and we are on track for 70+ calls this month. Our dedicated volunteers are still responding in the heat, humidity and storms 24/7. Are you bored? Tired [...]

Ladder 1 Arrives!

July 2, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

R. Lombardo III The brand new Ladder 1 has arrived! It was delivered Tuesday afternoon to our station by the Spartan/LTI staff and will be here until it goes out for tool and equipment mounting. In the meantime we will be conducting driver training and apparatus familiarization so that when it comes back we can place it in service. Fee [...]

Month	Monthly Total
January	52
February	50
March	77
April	54
May	50
June	65
July	64
August	71
September	55
October	59
November
December
Total For The Year	597