Posts in category Structure Fire

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April 3, 2017 Written by John Eisenhard

On April 2 at 9:45a.m. the engine was dispatched to assist the City of Reading on a second alarm structure fire in the 200 block of S. 11th St., Box 602. Arriving units had a 4 story vacant warehouse at 213 S. 11th St. with heavy fire on the top floor of the former Letisse Handbags/L&B Metals building. Command reported exterior operation [...]

Exeter Structure Fire

March 15, 2017 Written by John Eisenhard

On March 15 just before 8:30a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Lower Alsace (Co4) and a Reading City engine to 46 W 33rd St (Exeter Station 2) for a reported structure fire. Additional info gave it as behind their station on the hill. The address was corrected to 98 W. Neversink Rd. by arriving crews who had a working residential fire [...]

One fire leads to another

March 6, 2017 Written by John Eisenhard

Sunday began shortly before 12:30p.m. when Mt. Penn was dispatched for the RIT company to assist Exeter Twp. (Co25) at 6302 Perkiomen Ave. for a working structure fire. First arriving crews found a house well involved with access being made down a long dirt lane off of Route 422. The Rescue 1 crew assisted with moving equipment back to the [...]

Assist to Monocacy on Structure Fire

March 5, 2017 Written by John Eisenhard

On March 4th just before 11p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched as the RIT company, along with Amity (Co’s 6 & 49), Birdsboro (Co7) and Exeter (Co25) for a reported structure fire at 54 Monocacy Creek Rd. in Amity Twp. The first arriving units confirmed a working fire in an old farmhouse under renovation and requested additional tankers wh [...]

Reported kitchen fire in Mt. Penn

February 7, 2017 Written by John Eisenhard

On February 6 shortly before 6p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Lower Alsace (Co4), Exeter (Co25), Birdsboro (Co7), Oley (Co5) and the City of Reading to 2048 Fairview Ave. for a reported structure fire with possible entrapment. On arrival Deputy 1 (Wertz) reported heavy smoke and made it a working incident with everybody out of the ho [...]

RIT assist on structure fire

January 9, 2017 Written by John Eisenhard

On January 8 just before 4p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched as RIT on the second alarm to 14015 Kutztown Rd at MAS Imports to assist at a working structure fire. The first arriving units had been sent there for a passerby reporting smoke coming from the building and after gaining entry found fire throughout the first floor. A water supply was es [...]

GOODBYE 2016!

December 31, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

Well, 2016 has finally come to an end! It’s been quite a ride and hopefully everybody can look back, take a deep breath and move ahead to 2017. It’s also been quite a year for the volunteers at Mt. Penn. We answered a new record high of calls this past year although the number of “working fires” was down. In [...]

Exeter Township structure fire

December 23, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

On December 22 at 12:45p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Exeter (Co25), Lower Alsace (Co4) and a Reading City engine to 1315 Butter Lane for a report of a vehicle on fire in a garage. Arriving units found the vehicle as well as the attached garage well involved. Several lines were pulled from E1 to contain and extinguish the fire. Th [...]

Assist to Exeter on structure fire

December 21, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

On December 20 just after 5:30p.m. L1 was dispatched along with Exeter (Co25) and Birdsboro (Co7) to a reported structure fire at 125 Shelbourne Rd in Exeter for a reported bush on fire next to the home. Arriving crews found that the bush had burned but had extended to the side of the house as well and spread up the side all the way to the r [...]

Structure fire in Robeson Township

December 16, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

On December 15, shortly after 2:30p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched as the RIT company for a report of a structure fire at 101 Killian Dr. in Robeson Township. Deputy 23 (Favinger) quickly made it a working fire and requested the next alarm due to the large column of smoke visible from a mile away. Ladder 1 stopped on the way in to assist with t [...]

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