Posts in category Incidents

St. Patrick’s Day Structure

March 17, 2019 Written by John Eisenhard

Shortly before 9a.m. on March 17, Mt. Penn was dispatched with several other companies to assist Birdsboro (Co7) with a reported structure fire in the 100 block of S. Mill St. Berks County Communications gave additional information to Chief 7 (Kulp) that the police were reporting a large amount of smoke from that area as well and he ar [...]

Approaching Spring!!

March 5, 2019 Written by John Eisenhard

Now that the annual fastnacht sale has come and gone and we SOLD OUT thanks to your generosity and we had more snow that caused a rash of calls on Monday involving trees and wires it’s time to move on and SPRING AHEAD!!! That’s right, this Saturday before you get too tired and call it a day, take a few minutes to change the batte [...]

FASTNACHT TIME!!

February 27, 2019 Written by John Eisenhard

It’s that time again! Mt. Penn Fire Company will be having their 51st annual fastnacht sale March 2nd & 3rd. Fastnachts will be available at the fire station, 2711 Grant St. from 8a.m. until 4p.m. on Saturday and 8a.m. until sold out on Sunday. We will also have convenient drive-up-service at the intersection of 23rd St. & P [...]

Oley Structure Fire

February 18, 2019 Written by John Eisenhard

Chris Young/Fleetwood Fire Photo Fleetwood Fire Photo Chris Young/Fleetwood Fire Photo On February 18 shortly after 12:30a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched to assist Oley (Co5) and several other companies for a reported structure fire at 456 Main St. Response time for the first arriving units was short as this is just up the street from [...]

RIT to Wyomissing

February 11, 2019 Written by John Eisenhard

On February 11 shortly after 5a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched as the RIT to assist Wyomissing Fire Dept (Co 79) and several other companies on a working structure fire at 1614 Penn Ave. Arriving crews found heavy fire in the basement with smoke throughout the house. As searches were underway other crews stretched several lines and w [...]

Here and there

January 30, 2019 Written by John Eisenhard

The snow ended last night but it was getting colder! Mt. Penn was dispatched as the RIT company to 529 E Wesner Rd. in Maidencreek Twp. just before 6:30a.m. Arriving units had a fire in the basement that extended to the first floor. Arriving crews encountered frozen hydrants near the scene and had to initially rely on tank water. Fortuna [...]

3rd alarm RIT Assignment

January 26, 2019 Written by John Eisenhard

On January 26th shortly before 6:30a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched as an additional rapid intervention team(RIT) to 1643 Lancaster Avenue in Cumru Township at Supreme Cleaners for a structure fire. First arriving units had to contend with heavy fire on the second floor apartment area as well as temperatures that were well below freezing. [...]

Sunday Travels

January 20, 2019 Written by John Eisenhard

Despite the “big storm” not living up to expectations, it didn’t mean things slowed down for us. Warming temperatures along with heavy rain proved to be the cause for most of our responses between 2a.m. and 5:30a.m. It began shortly after 2 with a dispatch to assist Exeter at the Goodwill Store in St. Lawrence. [...]

Structure fire with entrapment

January 8, 2019 Written by John Eisenhard

On January 7, shortly before 11p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with units from Lower Alsace, Exeter, Oley, Birdsboro and the City of Reading to 2709 Perkiomen Ave. for a reported structure fire with possible entrapment. First arriving units quickly confirmed a working fire on the 1st floor with one person trapped on the second floor. [...]

Early Morning Crash

January 6, 2019 Written by John Eisenhard

Just before 2a.m. on January 6th Rescue 1 was dispatched to assist Lower Alsace (Co4) on a reported vehicle crash with unknown injuries in the 600 block of Carsonia Ave. Arriving units found 2 vehicles, one in the northbound lane and one in the southbound lane that had collided. There were also 2 other vehicles that [...]

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