September got off to a very soggy start with the remains of Hurricane Ida giving thunderstorms, wind and heavy rain with plenty of flooding throughout the area. Although it was pretty bad in Berks it could have been much worse. Areas to our east got all of the above with some tornados mixed in. Fortunately the next several days look beautiful for everybody to dry out and clean up.
Almost every fire company in the county responded to multiple incidents from trees and wires down to flooded basements and roadways, water rescues, vehicle crashes and structural collapse. Overall it was quite a day and fortunately things settled down later at night as the storm system moved away from the area. Mt. Penn responded to 14 calls from 4:30p.m. until 10:00p.m. and many other companies in the county did as much or more. We are glad that everybody is safe and sound.
