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Ladder 1 assist Cumru on Structure Fi...

May 3, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

On May 2 shortly before 8p.m. Ladder 1 was dispatched as the RIT company to 200 Tranquility Lane, The Heritage at Green Hills in Cumru Township for a reported structure fire. The initial arriving units had been dispatched for a smoke alarm activation as well as a sprinkler flow alarm. The call was upgraded to a structure fire after addition [...]

Mt. Penn Crash

April 29, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

Shortly after 2a.m. on April 29 Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Lower Alsace(Co4) for a vehicle crash with injuries at 23rd St. & Perkiomen Ave. which is a location both companies respond to several times each year. As with many times in the past, the Boro signs at the intersection were wiped out along with a pole on the CVS side suf [...]

Haz-Mat response to Douglass Township

April 22, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

On April 21 shortly after 3p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched to respond with the spill trailer to 56 Edge Hill Rd. in Douglass Township. A while earlier several companies were dispatched for a reported structure fire at that address. A large garage had become involved due to a controlled burn that got out of hand. The structure fire would g [...]

RIT x 2

April 14, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

Just before 4:30p.m. on April 13 Mt. Penn was special called as the second RIT company for a structure fire at 492 S Wyomissing Ave. in Cumru Twp. First arriving units had found a working structure fire involving the rear of 492 and 494 which became worse due to the dry conditions and steady wind. Eventually this fire would go to 4 [...]

Mt. Penn Crash

April 12, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

On April 12 just before 10a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Lower Alsace (Co4) to Carsonia Ave. & Weimoor Ct. in the boro for a vehicle crash with one vehicle reported into a tree. Arriving units found one vehicle had lost control for an unknown reason and struck a parked car and then struck a large tree. The driver sustained a h [...]

3rd Alarm in Mt. Penn

April 6, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

On April 6 shortly after 5a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Lower Alsace (Co4), Exeter (Co25), Birdsboro(Co7), Reading City and Oley (Co5) for a reported structure fire in the 1900 block of Woodvale Ave. As crews were responding Deputy 4-1(Mountz) arrived and reported a working fire with fire through the roof of 1951 Woodvale. All oc [...]

Chimney Fire in Exeter

March 17, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

On March 16 shortly after 10p.m. the Ladder and Engine were dispatched along with Alsace Manor (Co8), Oley (Co5) and Temple (Co11) to assist Exeter (Co25) on a reported chimney fire at 161 Dautrich Rd. Arriving units found heavy smoke and embers coming out of the chimney. The firebox on the wood stove was quickly emptied as the roof crew be [...]

West Reading Structure Fire

March 11, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

On March 11 just after 3a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched as an additional RIT company on the 2nd alarm to the 600 block of Penn Avenue in West Reading at Go Fish. The originally dispatched units had encountered heavy smoke in the block and a working fire towards the rear of the structure on their arrival at this large building that also houses t [...]

Moving ahead for spring

March 8, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

It’s hard to believe that we have made it through another winter but spring is knocking on the door despite the recent snows. That can only mean one thing….it is time to change the clocks again. This weekend is “spring ahead” where we all lose an hour of sleep Saturday night into Sunday morning. When you are turning [...]

Daytime work in Douglass

March 1, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

Just about 12:15p.m. on February 28 Mt. Penn and several other departments were dispatched to assist Amity(Co49) on a possible structure fire at 723 Constitution Ave. Mt. Penn was the designated RIT company. Shortly after responding it was declared a working fire by an arriving police officer. On the arrival of R1 command immediately ordere [...]

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

Posts in category Incidents

Ladder 1 assist Cumru on Structure Fi...

Mt. Penn Crash

Haz-Mat response to Douglass Township

RIT x 2

Mt. Penn Crash

3rd Alarm in Mt. Penn

Chimney Fire in Exeter

West Reading Structure Fire

Moving ahead for spring

Daytime work in Douglass

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