Posts in category News

SANTA ALERT!!!!!

December 17, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

The Mt. Penn Fire Company is pleased to announce that a special deal has been made between Fire Chief Tim Waldman and Kris Kringle, CEO of North Pole Enterprises Inc. for a one night only, special appearance of SANTA CLAUS!!!! Santa will be making his rounds around Mt. Penn on Tuesday, December 20th starting at 6:30p.m. Due to the need for [...]

Christmas is on the way!

December 13, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

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Congratulations Firefighter Acevedo!

December 2, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

We would like to congratulate Firefighter Raymond Acevedo on his recent graduation from the Reading Police Academy. He has put in lots of time at the gym working out as well as reading and studying all of the intricacies of police procedure and criminal law. He will be joining several of his classmates in a few weeks as they begin patrollin [...]

Eagle Scout Award

November 26, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

Congratulations to Junior Firefighter Kerry Wolf on his receiving the Eagle Scout, the highest award in scouting, from the Boy Scouts of America, Hawk Mountain Council recently. Kerry has been involved in the fire company for several years. He has completed over 30 merit badges, an Eagle Scout project and received several other awards duri [...]

Kiddie Night Hawk smoke alarm recall

November 13, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

We know many of you have smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in your homes. This recall involves a particular model that is a combination smoke/CO alarm. If you have this model as described below please make arrangements to replace it as soon as possible in order to keep you and your families safe. Kidde is recalling 3.6 million smoke alarms i [...]

Daylight savings time ends-Check your...

November 3, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

This weekend daylight savings time will come to an end at 2a.m on Sunday, November 6. While you are changing all of the clocks in your house back one hour we ask that you also change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. It seems like a small thing but having fresh batteries ensures that you and your family can get the [...]

Fire Prevention Week Part 2

October 15, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

Mt. Penn wrapped up Fire Prevention Week activities with visits to some local schools on Thursday and Friday mornings. The kids were refreshed on some prior fire prevention themes such as stop, drop and roll as well as what do to in an emergency such as evacuating the premises and calling 911. This year’s theme of “Don’t [...]

Fire Prevention Week 2016

October 8, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

October 9th begins Fire Prevention Week 2016 with the theme of “Don’t wait, check the date!” It encourages everybody to check the date on your smoke detectors to see if they are more than 10 years old and, if they are, to replace them immediately. Most of the public is unaware that a smoke detector needs to be replaced on [...]

Safety Day at Exeter Home Depot

October 3, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

On October 1, Mt. Penn joined up with Exeter, Monocacy, Geigertown, Reading Scuba Team, Birdsboro, Exeter EMS and fire police from Cumru & Exeter Township as well as West Reading Boro to support the Home Depot in Exeter with their annual Safety Day Kids workshop. Participants were able to build and paint their own fire truck to take hom [...]

Mt. Penn Block Party

September 20, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

Don’t forget the annual Mt. Penn block party this Saturday from 12 noon until 5p.m. on N. 25th St. by the boro hall. There will be food, games, music and fun for everybody so bring the family and enjoy a pleasant afternoon with friends and neighbors. It looks like the weather will be decent so we hope you can make it. See you there [...]

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