Posts tagged brush

Fire on the Mountain

April 17, 2019 Written by John Eisenhard

On April 17 at 12:30p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched to assist Lower Alsace (Co4), Reading City and several other county companies on a working brush fire on Neversink Mountain. Pinpointing the exact location initially proved challenging as Berks Radio was getting several calls from multiple areas around the mountain reporting the fire.&nb [...]

Assist to RFD on brush fire

November 22, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

On November 21 just after 7:30p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched for additional manpower to assist the City of Reading and numerous other companies on a working brush fire in the area behind Reading High School. The initial arriving companies had a working brush fire on arrival which quickly spread up the mountain as well as moving north and south [...]

Steady Sunday

November 8, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

This past Sunday was started at the station with the crew stripping and cleaning out the old Rescue 1 in preparation for getting the new Rescue 1 in service. A great turn out made this job much easier and it was finished up by early afternoon. Shortly after 3p.m. the Engine was dispatched to assist Lower Alsace (Co4) at 107 Old Spies Chur [...]

Assist to Robeson Township on structu...

April 8, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

On April 6 about 2:30p.m. L1 was dispatched as the RIT company for a reported structure fire involving a garage at 71 Fountain Dr. in Robeson Twp. Deputy 23 (Favinger) arrived and reported the structure, which was actually a storage shed, on the ground but a quickly spreading brush fire that was a result of the original fire. The respondin [...]

Busy end to March

April 1, 2016 Written by John Eisenhard

Although things seemed to be slower in the past month, the last week of March has been quite busy for Mt. Penn. We have done everything from a medical assist last Saturday to a residential lockout yesterday. In between we have assisted on possible structure fires, stood by at station for neighboring companies, investigated a carbon monoxid [...]

Mother’s Day on the mountain

May 14, 2015 Written by John Eisenhard

Shortly after 9pm on Mother’s Day Engine 1 was called along with Alsace Manor (Co 8) and Forestry (Co 81) to assist Lower Alsace (Co 4) with a brush fire just below the William Penn fire tower. Crews found a working brush fire that was quickly growing due to the dry conditions and called Muhlenberg (Co 10) and City of Reading brush un [...]

Brush fire in Lower Alsace

April 16, 2015 Written by John Eisenhard

Photo courtesy of Reading Eagle/Tim Leedy On April 15 just after 1:00pm Mt. Penn was dispatched to assist Co 4 (Lower Alsace) with a reported brush fire in the area of the fire tower at 621 Skyline Dr. E1 arrived and sent its crew over the wall to help with finding the specific location of the fire which was found to be between the Bridal P [...]

Busy Monday as Mt. Penn logs multipl...

April 7, 2015 Written by John Eisenhard

On Monday April 6 crews from Mt. Penn logged several calls to assist many of our mutual aid departments. It began in mid-afternoon with a call for L1 to assist the city on N 12th St. for a reported structure fire. Mt. Penn was recalled within a few minutes as the city was able to free up additional apparatus to cover the response. The engine [...]

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