Posts in category Incidents

Cumru Brush Fire

March 22, 2022 Written by John Eisenhard

On March 21st shortly before 5p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Reading City and other companies to a reported brush fire near Klapperthal Junction in Cumru Twp. Some units went out S. 9th St. to make access from the city side while other units went to Poplar Neck Rd. near the old Titus Station. Arriving units found a working [...]

CARBON MONOXIDE PROBLEM

March 21, 2022 Written by John Eisenhard

On March 20th just after 9:30a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Exeter Twp(Co25) to the Autozone in St. Lawrence for an odor of gas in the building. Arriving units had 50+ parts per million(ppm) of carbon monoxide on entry to the store. Further monitoring of the store led to readings of almost 100ppm. The source was traced to a stora [...]

Reading City 2nd alarm

February 20, 2022 Written by John Eisenhard

On February 19th just before 1a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with several other county companies to assist the Reading Fire Department at 450 Mulberry St. for a second alarm structure fire. Arriving city units had heavy fire showing on arrival from the front of 448 Mulberry St. and quickly pulled several lines and began fire attack whil [...]

Double Structure Fires Hours Apart

February 16, 2022 Written by John Eisenhard

On February 15th just before 10:30p.m. Mt. Penn, along with several other companies, was dispatched to Jake’s Coin Laundry at 747 Carsonia Ave. in the township for a reported structure fire. EMS, having their station just behind this location quickly called a working fire reporting smoke showing and 2 dryers inside well involved. Arri [...]

Ruscombmanor Structure Fire

February 13, 2022 Written by John Eisenhard

On February 11 shortly after 7:30p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched as the RIT company for a 2nd alarm structure fire with entrapment at 73 Dreamland Park Dr. in Ruscombmanor Twp. The first arriving units had a well involved residence with fire showing and quickly struck a second alarm. A long hose lay was needed to supply water from the tanker [...]

Tractor trailer wreck in Amity

February 9, 2022 Written by John Eisenhard

On February 8 just before 10a.m. Mt. Penn was requested to respond with the spill trailer to 6867 Boyertown Pike in Amity Township to assist with a tractor trailer crash that was leaking fuel. First arriving units had a tractor trailer tanker fully loaded with diesel fuel which was free flowing from several holes in the tank. The driv [...]

Snowy & cold Amity Structure Fir...

January 29, 2022 Written by John Eisenhard

On January 29th, just before 8a.m. Ladder 1 was dispatched along with several other companies to the 100 block of Fancy Hill Rd. in Amity Township for a reported structure fire. Initial reports were that the occupant heard a noise and when they checked the attic HVAC unit there were flames inside. Responding units had a slow go as the road [...]

Lower Alsace Structure Fire

January 19, 2022 Written by John Eisenhard

On January 19, just after 1:30p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with several other companies to assist Lower Alsace(Co4) on a reported structure fire at 500 Spring Ave. in the township. Deputy 4-1(Mountz) reported smoke showing from High St. & Carsonia Ave. and on arrival corrected the address to 516 Fountain Ave. with a working struct [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

December 30, 2021 Written by John Eisenhard

Well, we’re almost there! Good riddance to another year full of problems for everybody. The members of the Mt. Penn Fire Company are looking forward to a fresh start and we would like to wish all of you a Happy & safe New Year! It looks like we will finish up with just about 650 emergency calls for the year. We have taken p [...]

Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2021 Written by John Eisenhard

Well it’s that time again. We are not sure where the year has gone but Christmas is just about here and 2022 is just around the corner. Santa Claus has made his rounds and has headed back North to finish his final preparations for the big day. Hopefully everybody is on the Nice List! The Mt. Penn Fire Company members and office [...]

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