Ladder 1 Arrives!

July 2, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

R. Lombardo III The brand new Ladder 1 has arrived! It was delivered Tuesday afternoon to our station by the Spartan/LTI staff and will be here until it goes out for tool and equipment mounting. In the meantime we will be conducting driver training and apparatus familiarization so that when it comes back we can place it in service. Fee [...]

New Haz-Mat Trailer

June 20, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

On June 20th thanks to the County of Berks and the Berks County Department of Emergency Services we received our new haz-mat spill response trailer. This project has been in the works for some time between DES and the participating departments and it replaces our 30 year old one. These new trailers are larger, much better organized and repla [...]

Are You College Bound?

June 12, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

Are you done with high school and headed to higher education in Berks County? Were you a firefighter in your hometown and looking to stay involved in the fire service while you are away from home? We may have just the thing for you! We are taking applications for live-ins that have plans to continue their education at any of the 3 Ber [...]

Sunday Training

June 8, 2025 Written by Ricky Lombardo

Today, crews loaded up and went to the old Antietam Jr./Sr. high school for training. With the school slated for demolition in the near future, crews were able to conduct training that we normally don’t get to do. Crews trained on large area search, leader line deployment, pump training, and roof ventilation while the building was char [...]

Drive safe….ride safe!

May 19, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

Between May 6th and May 15th Mt. Penn responded to 3 vehicle crashes with entrapment, 1 in Lower Alsace Township with injuries and 2 in Alsace Township which were both fatal. All were preventable. As the weather is warming and more people are out and about on errands, vacations and so on, we are urging all of you who drive to slow d [...]

Lower Alsace Entrapment

May 8, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

On May 8th just after 7a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched to assist Lower Alsace(Co4) with a vehicle crash with entrapment at Carsonia Ave. and Woodland Ave. Two vehicles collided and one rolled onto its roof trapping the driver. Crews stabilized the car with cribbing and rescue struts, then removed both doors on the driver’s side to g [...]

Alsace Township Crash

May 7, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

On May 6th shortly after 7:30p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched, along with EMS, Blandon(Co12), Laureldale (Co13) and Muhlenberg(Co66) to the 2900 block of Pricetown Rd. for a vehicle crash with entrapment, fire and reported into the house. First arriving units confirmed the report except for the fire. They quickly stabilized the vehicle and r [...]

Staying busy

May 4, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

May is off to a quick start for Mt. Penn. We have already responded to 9 calls this month. It has been the usual mix of things, brush fire, medical assist, CO alarm, RIT, wires down. We assisted Reading City just before 5:30p.m. May 3rd on a 2nd alarm structure fire in the 200 block of S. 9th St. The first arriving city units had heavy fire [...]

Until later Sarge

April 29, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

Yesterday we were saddened to learn of the passing of Keith ‘Sarge’ Eschleman. Keith retired from active firefighting several years ago but remained involved as Department Chaplain and more than likely a few dozen other things…playing Santa Claus, Christmas on the Mountain visual coordinator/designer etc. He was well kn [...]

2 Alarm Structure in Robeson Twp

April 28, 2025 Written by John Eisenhard

Today at 6:30a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched as the RIT company, along with several other mutual aid companies, to the 700 block of White Bear Rd in Robeson Township for a reported structure fire with entrapment. First arriving units had heavy smoke and fire showing and a report of 3 people unaccounted for. A second alarm was quickly struck to [...]

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