Posts in category Incidents

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 [...]

Welcome 2019!

January 1, 2019 Written by John Eisenhard

All of us at the Mt. Penn Fire Company would like to wish you a safe and Happy New Year! Let’s stay safe in 2019. We finished 2018 with 553 calls that covered everything from fires, vehicle crashes, rescues, fire alarms, assisting other departments and assisting the police and public works. This year marked the most [...]

Rescue assist in Birdsboro

December 14, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

On December 13, shortly after 7p.m. the rescue was dispatched, along with Tower 25(Exeter) to assist Birdsboro(Co7) at the Birdsboro Power Plant, 1 Armorcast Rd. for a high angle rescue. Initial reports were that a worker inside of a compartment was electrocuted. When crews arrived the victim had been removed to th [...]

Structure fire assist to Exeter

December 9, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

Shortly before 7p.m. on December 7 the ladder was dispatched with several other companies to assist on a possible structure fire, reported dryer fire at 3819 Perkiomen Ave. Arriving crews at the house, which is behind Heck Bros. Florist, found heavy smoke and visible fire on the C side of the building and pulled one line.&nbs [...]

Gas odor marks 500th call

November 26, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

On November 25th just before 9p.m. the ladder and rescue were dispatched to assist Lower Alsace(Co4) at the Reading Liederkranz, 143 Spook Lane for an odor of natural gas. On arrival several crews metered the building and found no readings of any type. Further investigation found several outdoor propane heaters stored in the basement of wh [...]

Home Depot Kids Workshop

October 6, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

Despite the clouds and an early drizzle, the Ladder & Rescue made the trip to the Exeter Home Depot to meet with units from Exeter, Gibraltar, Geigertown, Brecknock, West Reading, Monocacy, Life Lion EMS, Birdsboro and the Reading Fire Scuba Unit to attend their monthly Kids Workshop. Since October is also the month where Fire Preventio [...]

Goodwill dumpster fire

September 8, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

On September 7th just before 2:30p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with several other companies to assist Exeter (Co25) on a reported structure fire at the Goodwill Industries, 3001 St. Lawrence Ave. Additional information from County indicated a dumpster fire. Arriving units quickly confirmed a working compactor/dumpster fire at one end [...]

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