Posts by John Eisenhard

Turkey Day has arrived!

November 24, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

We’ve made it to Thanksgiving! Although this year has been full of challenges for everybody we hope you can all take the time to be thankful for what you have. It has been tough for everybody but here’s to better days ahead. The Mt. Penn Fire Company hopes you have an enjoyable holiday and as always, BE SAFE!

Oley Structure Fire

November 15, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

On November 15 at 9:30a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with several other companies for a confirmed working structure fire to the rear of the 300 block of Main St. First arriving units had a well involved multi-bay garage with unknown contents burning. Mt. Penn crews were split with half standing by as the RIT company [...]

Mt. Penn Crash

November 14, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

On November 14 at 3:00a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Lower Alsace (Co4) and EMS for a vehicle crash with unknown injuries in the 300 block of Friedensburg Rd. First arriving Captain 1 (Lombardo) reported multiple vehicles but no apparent injuries. A silver sedan lost control and struck a parked vehicle, pushing it into several oth [...]

HEY THERE!

November 10, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

Hopefully everybody is doing well. Welcome to Fall! We haven’t been on here too much lately but that doesn’t mean things have stopped for your fire company. We continue to be busy with our raffles which are going well. THANK YOU for your continued support, it is greatly appreciated! We have continued to be busy with ca [...]

Back to standard time

October 28, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

This is the weekend to do a minor chore at your home. Daylight savings time ends and we turn the clocks back 1 hour at 2a.m. Sunday. Most of us will do that Saturday night before we go to bed. Either way, this weekend is the time to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and test them to make sure they are in pr [...]

Mt. Penn Chimney Fire

October 25, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

On October 25, shortly before 8a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Lower Alsace (Co4), Exeter (Co25), Oley (Co5), Birdsboro (Co7) and Reading City Tower & Engine 1 to the 100 block of South 22nd St. for a reported chimney fire with multiple calls being received from neighbors. Arriving units found what appeared to be excessive smoke [...]

Alsace Crash

October 18, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

On October 17 shortly before 7:30p.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Lower Alsace (Co4), Oley (Co5) and Exeter (Co25) to Antietam Rd. in the area of Simmons Rd. for a vehicle crash with injuries. On arrival a car was found to have struck a tree about 10ft off the road with all occupants out. The driver was injured and transported to th [...]

Training time

October 7, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

Recently the crew headed to the Berks County Fire Training site for our fall burn. The focus was on hoseline management which everybody, especially our newer members, found was not as easy as they thought. All lines had to be advanced through the baker’s alley then into the basement & up to the first or second floor to attack the [...]

Fire Prevention Week 2020

October 4, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

Fire Prevention Week 2020 is upon us. Although things are quite different at the current time, fire prevention is everyone’s business. The theme this year is “Serve up fire safety in the kitchen.” That may sound a bit simple and out of date but the kitchen is one part of the house that many spend quite a bit of time [...]

Raffle time!

September 30, 2020 Written by John Eisenhard

Set a reminder for 12 noon on Friday, October 2nd. That’s when the Mt. Penn Fire Company will be kicking off our raffles with some really great prizes! Drawings will be live on the fire company Facebook page & payment is via the Square app. The rules are below so take a chance and win some great prizes!

2021
Month	Total
January	29Prior Year (2020) Stats January - 39 10 less call(s) this year.
February	0
March	0
April	0
May	0
June	0
July	0
August	0
September	0
October	0
November	0
December	0
Totals	29

Working Fires	2

2020					582
2019					656
2018					553
2017					462